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Technical Resources

Versant provides a variety of technical resources to help you getting into object-oriented data management and to support you become productive using the Versant Object Database:

Product Information

Product Overview Versant Object Database (HTML)
Versant Object Database 7.0 is designed to handle the navigational access, seamless data distribution, and enterprise scale often required by applications that use complex C++ and Java object models, have high concurrency requirements, and large data sets.

Online Screencasts

Screencasts: First Steps Versant Object Database (HTML)
In these 15-minutes practice oriented screencasts we demonstrate how easy it is to transparently and efficiently persist your data with Versant Object Database – from an OO modell to data persistence in no time. Screencasts are available either for Java (JVI) and C++.

Add-on Modules Information

Vitness Add-on Module (HTML)
Vitness monitors the Versant Object Databases, designed following the standard managing console/remote agent paradigm. The remote agent resides on the Versant server system, while the managing console is a graphical interface running on a Versant client system to display the ongoing activity of the monitored database.

Vorkout Add-on Module (HTML)
Versant's Online Database Reorganizer, Vorkout, is for applications that delete large numbers of objects. It lets you reclaim unused space in your database while it is in normal operation, increasing available free space and improving database performance.

Fault Tolerant Server Add-on Module (HTML)
The Versant Fault Tolerant Server (FTS) is an add-on software module enabling automatic fail-over and recovery in the case of hardware or software failure.

Versant Asynchronous Replication Add-on Module (HTML)
Versant Asynchronous Replication (VAR) add-on module supports both master-slave and peer-to-peer asynchronous replication between multiple object servers. This can be used to replicate data to a distributed recovery site or to replicate data between multiple local object servers.

Warm Standby Add-on Module (HTML)
With Versant Object Database 7.0.1.2 Versant has launched the Warm Standby Add-on module, which is used as an incremental rollforward recovery. It is designed to minimize the downtime in an emergency event.

High Availability BackUp Add-on Module (HTML)
Versant High Availability Backup (HABackUp) enables usage of the disk mirroring features of EMC Symmetrix or other enterprise storage systems to take an online backup of very large data volumes without impacting availability.

VSQL Add-on Modules (HTML)
The Versant/SQL suite of software modules permits you to use conventional Structured Query Language (SQL) semantics to access data that resides in a Versant object database.

Compatibility Overview

Versant Object Database 7.0.1 Compatibility Overview (HTML)
Compatibility with the leading operating systems and integrated development environments (IDEs).

Whitepapers

Whitepaper: Advanced Data Management for MMOG (PDF file, 660 KB)
The whitepaper explores the challenges in delivering an MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming) solution for the data layer and describes how the Versant Object Database delivers on the capabilities required by these incredibly demanding applications.

MMOG Config and Coding Tips (PDF file, 120 KB)
Programing and coding tips for achieving optimal performance using the Versant Object Database in MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming) applications. It's a must read for MMOG evaluations.

Whitepaper: Managing Emerging Telecommunications Technologies for Competitive Advantage (PDF file, 524 KB)
The next generation of telecommunications applications requires a new generation of database technology - technology that draws on the strengths of prior-generation DBMS technology and blends them with the latest software advances.

Whitepaper: Objects End-to-End - The ODBMS Advantage (PDF file, 212 KB)
This whitepaper aims to investigate the roles for database technologies, focusing on how an Object Database Management System (ODBMS), like the one provided by Versant, can help an organisation to truly deliver end-to-end object solutions.

Whitepaper: How to Evaluate an Object Database (PDF file, 483 KB)
As the leader in the object database industry, Versant has assembled this guide to assist prospective users in identifying the criteria for evaluation of object database management systems.

Whitepaper: Database Scalability and Clustering -- How Data Clustering Can Benefit Performance (PDF file, 88 KB)
This white paper addresses the issue of data clustering and how optimal clustering can benefit performance by improving application scalability. The subject of relational databases is visited briefly, but the emphasis of this article is on client/server architectures built around an Object-Oriented Database Management System (ODBMS).

Whitepaper: Which Database is Right for the New Information Systems? (PDF file, appr. 100 KB)
The purpose of this document is to show how to build scalable information systems (IS) for highly scalable transaction-based business applications on the Internet, using best-of-breed technologies to deliver new functionality that encapsulates and leverages investment in existing data sources and services.

Case Study: An Object Database for Large-Scale Simulations - Better Performance and More Powerful Algorithms (PDF file, 324 KB)
Using the Versant Enterprise Class OODBMS, The Cloud Depiction and Forecasting System II (CDFS II) System Delivers Precise Worldwide Cloud Forecasts

Documentation

Documentation: Versant Object Database Administration Manual
(PDF file, appr. 1.5 MB)

Documentation: Versant Object Database Fundamentals Manual
(PDF file, appr. 2 MB)