UniData

Rocket UniData® is an extended relational data server ideal for embedding in a variety of industry-focused solutions.

Its extended relational model is perfect for rapid cost-effective vertical application development with flexible and fast storage and retrieval for the SMB market.

• UniData simplifies data management and query logic, providing more power for online high-transaction applications.
  
• MultiValue data model eases modeling and storing of complex data and improves retrieval performance.
  
• Flexible development options, from an integrated Basic development environment to .NET (e.g. Microsoft® Visual Studio) to Java™ (e.g. Eclipse) and     more with a wide array of programming interfaces.
  
• Includes UniQuery -- an easy-to-use, English-like query language -- which provides the ability to create meaningful ad hoc data server queries without having to understand underlying data server structures.
  
• Includes UniBasic -- a unique application development environment -- which enables developers to create powerful, transaction-intensive applications.
  
• UniData 7.2 introduces Basic Developers Toolkit (BDT), an Extensible Administration Tool (XAdmin), an API for External Database Access, PAM/LDAP for user authentication, High Availability enhancements, online resize, and Encryption enhancements. Replication and encryption performance were also improved

Features and Benefits

Highlights

Rocket UniData® is a best-of-breed, extended relational data server for embedding in vertical solutions -- ideal for markets which target small- to medium-businesses.

• Highly scalable, low-cost data management system.

• Support for Web services protocols including XML and SOAP.

• Includes UniObjects for .NET -- a native, high performance API for developing in the Microsoft® .NET framework.

• Robust features for high availability, failover and data replication available.

• Includes innovative features for achieving optimum response times, ease of management and low total-cost-of-ownership (TCO).

• Standards-based SQL interfaces such as JDBC, OLEDB and ODBC that support the full nesting capability of the data server engine.

• Includes Eclipse-based Basic Developers Toolkit (BDT) and Extensible Administration Tool (XAdmin), bringing state-of-the-art Eclipse-based development and administration tools to UniData.

• Automatic Data Encryption to protect your data on disk and SSL to protect your data in flight.

• High availability enhancements to ease administration, increase the functionality of your replicated data and increase your application’s availability.

Benefits

• Extended relational architecture requires fewer tables whose size is dynamically managed by the data server. UniData sites require list data server administration with smaller sites having zero or part-time resources allocated.

• Shortened development cycles due to ease of data server design along with tightly integrated development environment.

• UniData supports a broad range of information management applications with excellent performance and reliability. As a result, a large number of industry solution providers use UniData to support their applications. This allows the customer to more quickly satisfy their requirements by buying, rather than building, solutions.

 Features 

• Automatic Data Encryption protects your sensitive data on disk with minimal changes to applications. File and field level encryption may be configured to secure data automatically. A graphical interface is provided for key management.

• Basic Developers Toolkit (BDT) provides a modern integrated development tool for Basic Developers that features a Resource Explorer, a Dictionary Editor, a Code Editor and an Integrated Debugger.

• Connection Pooling (CP) enables developers to design and deploy applications that do not use persistent connections to the data server, such as in a Web environment. Connection Pools are authorized separately and do not consume data server licenses.

• Device Licensing for Server Edition offers the ability to customize the number of connections per device such as a user's PC. This provides greater flexibility when fewer than 10 connections per device are required and the additional value of Enterprise Edition is not an alternative.

• External Data server Access (EDA) provides the ability to store one or more UniData files on an external data server such as IBM DB2® Universal Data server, in a manner that is transparent to the application.

• Extensible Administration Tool (XAdmin) not only provides a GUI-based tool to administer your UniData database, but will also allow the building of plug-ins for other administration tasks.

• Network File Architecture (NFA) offers local access to data on remote UniData servers.

• Recoverable File System (RFS) provides recoverability in case of system or media failures.

• Transaction Processing (TP) semantics provide atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability (ACID) properties for the data server.

UniData 7.2

Rocket UniData® 7.2 - delivers enhanced high availability, interoperability, development capability, security, and administration, as well as additional enhancements.

High Availability

UniData 7.2 adds new levels of control and replication granularity for high availability. Replication at the account level and at the file level is now possible with UniData 7.2. The need to explicitly declare each file in the account on the publisher and subscriber has been eliminated. Files created "on the fly" can be replicated without reconfiguration. In addition, individual subscribed files can be declared "writeable" on the subscriber: making reporting from the subscriber much easier.

Performance of replication has been improved by the use of dual threaded subscriber processing. UniData 7.2 replication provides better control and balanced data flow, reduced buffer and TCA overflow and reduces delays during SYNC operations.

Another addition to UniData 7.2 High Availability is RESIZE CONCURRENT for Unix-based or Linux-based servers. Prior to 7.2, UniData processes could not access the file until a resize was complete. Now with 7.2, files can be resized while other UniData processes use the file concurrently.

Interoperability

UniData 7.2 adds an External Database Access (EDA) API to the interoperability arsenal. The EDA Driver API enables you to write your own driver to access data in any relational database, such as Microsoft SQLServer or Informix Dynamic Server. The EDA Driver API is a set of sixteen functions which EDA calls to communicate with an external database.

Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) is now supported in UniData 7.2. UniData 7.2 supports the PAM framework for the following products:

• UniObjects
• UniObjects for Java
• UniObjects for .NET
• InterCall
• Rocket JDBC Driver for UniData and UniVerse
• UniData ODBC

• UniOLEDB

Development Capability

UniData 7.2 will be the first release that supports the modern, integrated development & debugging tool for Basic Developers: Rocket UniData and UniVerse Basic Developers Toolkit (BDT). This graphical toolkit gives Basic developers real power and provides for User Exit Control, a Resource Explorer, a Dictionary Editor, a Code Editor and an Integrated Debugger.

Security and encryption

UniData 7.2 introduces Automatic Data Encryption. With this feature, you can encrypt specified fields or entire records, and UniData automatically decrypts the data when accessed by UniData or UniBasic commands. This enhancement includes the following features:

• Define which fields in the UniData file to encrypt
• Automatically encrypt the data you specify when writing the record to the UniData file
• Automatically decrypt the data you specify when reading the record from the UniData file
• Key management support
• Audit trail for operations on keys and encrypted files

• Support of popular encryption algorithms, such as DES and AES.

Administration 

An Extensible Administration Tool (XAdmin) is included with UniData 7.2. XAdmin is an Eclipse-based interface for administering UniData with an easy to use, modern look and feel with resizable detached views and extensibility potential. The Major features provide by XAdmin include:

• Configurable Performance Monitor views
• Configurable Performance Monitor Report view
• Filters for Server/account/file view or Columns of output views
• Table/tree user interface for Configuration Editor
• New License Wizard

• Bubble Help

Additional Enhancements

• 64-bit Sequential File Access
• Support for 64-bit log files with the Recoverable File System