08/04/2010
China Telecom selects the Versant Object Database
Managing a customer base of 250 million ADSL subscribers, China Telecom turns to Versant‘s Object Database for its ultra high performance requirements to build a high volume query system.

08/04/2010
HPC - Predicting the Future in Realtime
Developers at a major DoD contractor were challenged to develop a next generation simulation application for the U.S. Air Force that could deliver results 6 times faster with 4 times higher resolution. Versant´s high performance object data ingestion and retrieval enabled the developers to successfully implement the large-scale simulations needed for CDFS II.

07/24/2010
White Paper Objects, Databases and the Myth of Serialization
Authors quite commonly—and incorrectly—refer to the process of serialization as part of what is happening when an object database stores an object or object graph. This white paper debunks that misperception, and sets the record straight about the efficiency of object databases as brought about by the avoidance of serialization.

04/15/2010
Don't Sing the ORM Blues
Developers at a major movie producer building Blu-ray authoring software learned that the object-relational mapping (ORM) technology they used would not scale. The resources required to produce a Blu-ray disc, which can involve as many as 200,000 objects, demanded a fast and reliable database capable of handling an equal number of complex object relationships. What‘s more, the emerging Blu-ray specification itself was in flux, and every change to the spec required a corresponding adjustment to the data model and database schema. These and other factors led to the selection of Versant‘s db4o object database.

04/10/2010
ESA Case Study: Data from Outer Space
Launched by an Ariane 5 rocket on 14 May 2009, the ESA “Herschel” telescope is delivering image and spectroscopic data from outer space, and the astrophysical world is raving about it. Telemetry data and information on steering and calibrating the Herschel telescope’s scientific instruments is managed in an object database system from Versant.

01/06/2010
FastObjects Case Study: Stratec Biomedical Systems AG
Innovation Made in Germany STRATEC is one of the most innovative medical engineering companies in Germany, developing and manufacturing fully automated analyzer systems for clinical diagnostics and biotechnology. Main applications are blood group analysis, serological tests for infectious diseases and immunoassays. About 90 % of STRATEC’s products are licensed and sold through OEM customers, who market the systems under their own brands, including the chemical reagents.

12/10/2009
RSSOwl Soars with db4o
Developers in the RSSOwl team were feeling pressure from the competition. Other RSS readers were moving ahead in terms of features and extensibility. And as loyal as they might have been, hundreds of thousands of RSSOwl 1.x users made it clear they wanted more, and might start migrating to other rea-ders if the team didn‘t get to work. Facing a total rewrite of their RSS/RDF/Atom news reader, the team imple-mented db4o, the object database and persistence engine from Versant.

11/10/2009
Versant Case Study: ITandFactory GmbH
Hop, Malt and Hi Tech Engineering. ITandFactory from Bad Soden in Germany talks about brewing beer, building process plants - and how an embedded Versant Object Database relates to it.

10/14/2009
Versant Launches China – Partners with Henrhyao
Versant Corporation (Nasdaq: VSNT), an industry leader in specialized data management software, is pleased to announce that Henrhyao Information Technology Co., Ltd (“Henrhyao”), a company specializing in software sales and services in China, will distribute Versant’s flagship product, the Versant Object Database. Henrhyao will provide sales, consulting, training and local support for new customers of the Versant Object Database in China.

09/29/2009
Versant Article At HPCwire.com: Database Vendor Versant Eyes HPC Market
Versant is an industry leader in specialized data management. Versant's Object Database Technology (ODBMS, OODBMS) is used in a wide variety of industries to store and access hierarchical, and graph-oriented data. Some of the most successful uses of Versant Object Database are in the field of telecommunications, like Ericsson, Verizon, Alcatel.

08/31/2009
Whitepaper: Object Persistence And Agile Software Development
The purpose of this whitepaper is to examine and compare RDBMS with several object persistence methods within the context of Agile Software Development.

08/07/2009
Vnews July 2009
Vnews – a new monthly email newsletter filled with the latest information and updates about Versant products.

08/07/2009
Echelon Powers World's Leading Control Networks With The Versant FastObjects Database - A Versant Case Study
Find out more about Echelon, the Echelon LonWorks platform and the benefits of the Versant FastObjects database in this leading edge ecosystem.