ExtenDB Announces Free Database Cluster for Business Intelligence.WESTBOROUGH Westborough, town (1990 pop. 14,133), Worcester co., E central Mass., on the Assabet River; inc. 1717. The town, which is largely residential, produces electronic components, tools, dyes, and other products. , Mass. -- ExtenDB Inc., announced today the availability of a free version of their ExtenDB Parallel Server Standard Edition clustered database product, which now also includes expanded support for the PostgreSQL 8.1 database. The Standard Edition allows users to cluster together four servers running the open source database software PostgreSQL. It is targeted for the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse market. ExtenDB's database engine partitions or replicates the data amongst the nodes, and intelligently parallelizes submitted 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. requests, achieving fast query response times by utilizing all of the nodes in the cluster. ExtenDB is also offering three different support plans to meet varying customer needs. "We are pleased to make this software freely downloadable from our website," remarked Mason Sharp, founder of ExtenDB. "We are offering a free or low-cost solution to companies that are just getting started with Business Intelligence, as well as offering a more cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. alternative for those using other solutions." The software utilizes the open source database PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 8.1 adds important features for dealing with large amounts of data in Business Intelligence, such as table partitioning To divide a resource or application into smaller pieces. See partition, application partitioning and PDQ. . With ExtenDB and PostgreSQL together, data can be partitioned par·ti·tion n. 1. a. The act or process of dividing something into parts. b. The state of being so divided. 2. a. in smaller segments across multiple nodes, achieving more efficient query processing and parallelism An overlapping of processing, input/output (I/O) or both. 1. parallelism - parallel processing. 2. (parallel) parallelism - The maximum number of independent subtasks in a given task at a given point in its execution. E.g. at the same time. For those users whose needs cannot be met by the Standard Edition, ExtenDB is also offering the Workgroup Edition and Enterprise Edition. These versions are architected to scale to many more nodes than the Standard Edition. About ExtenDB, Inc. ExtenDB was founded in 2002 to offer an unparalleled price/performance value in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence by leveraging proven Open Source database technology and low-cost, reliable PC-based commodity hardware. For more information, please visit http://www.extendb.com. |
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