ANGARA DATA SERVER USES MAIN MEMORY AS DATA STORE.Angara Database Systems, Inc., Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif., a provider of main-memory database solutions, has introduced the Angara Data Server, a full-featured relational database management system relational database management system - relational database (RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database ) that uses main memory as the primary data store. Angara's main-memory system gives a competitive edge for high-performance database application development by delivering performance increases up to 1,000 times faster than data access from disk, and more than 20 times faster than the cache of disk-based RDBMSs. Angara provides a fully functional RDBMS that leverages the speed of DRAM access to support today's complex, database- intensive business applications, especially electronic commerce implementations. "Application developers and database administrators can greatly benefit from our main-memory RDBMS solution, which is designed to meet the requirements of electronic commerce and other performance-critical database applications," said Eric Ver Ploeg, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Angara. "Angara has not only overcome performance challenges associated with traditional disk-based systems, but also provides a solution that is easy to implement and administer." With an industry-standard SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. programming interface, the Angara Data Server is easy to integrate into database applications that require a high-performance RDBMS. In addition to tremendous performance advantages, the Angara Data Server offers a simple, easy-to-maintain implementation that can be deployed on a standard server hardware configuration. Persistent storage for log files and checkpoint images is addressed with local disk drives or a network file server. Easy to implement and administer, the Angara Data Server virtually eliminates the performance tuning associated with conventional disk-based database systems. "Angara's main-memory database is an innovative solution that improves the performance of database applications," said Carl Olofson, research director for IDC. "The Angara Data Server can help companies increase their responsiveness to Web site browsers and shoppers, giving them tremendous advantages over traditional RDBMSs." Availability The Angara Data Server is available on popular UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms (HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Sun, Linux) and Windows NT directly from Angara. For more information, please contact Angara Database Systems at 888-952-5200. About Angara Database Systems Angara Database Systems delivers high-performance data management solutions based on main-memory database technology. Angara's flagship product, the Angara Data Server, is a fully relational, main-memory database that allows data access up to 20 times faster than the main memory cache of popular RDBMS database systems. This performance advantage uniquely qualifies Angara to meet the needs of Internet and other performance-critical database applications. Angara was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. . Angara is funded by venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, JMI JMI Java Metadata Interface (Sun Microsystems) JMI Japan Market Intelligence JMI James Madison Institute JMI Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (Florida State University) Equity and Stanford University. For more information, visit Angara's Web site at http://www.angara.com or send e-mail to info@angara.com. For more information, call 650-321-2700. |
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