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2005/05/04
Versant Corporation (NASDAQ: VSNT), an industry leader in specialized data management and data persistence software, today announced that Génigraph NSK, a software systems integrator in Paris, France, has chosen Versant Open Access Java Data Objects (JDO) as a key component of e-Citiz, a software platform for e-Government. Versant Open Access JDO was chosen for object-relational mapping because it offered advanced technical features like attach/detach capability, and projections and aggregates in queries. Going forward, Versant’s strategy is to evolve this technology as part of the Eclipse open source community. Parts of the e-Citiz platform are already based on Eclipse, and Génigraph endorses Versant’s move to Eclipse.
e-Citiz (e-Citizen) is a platform for internet-based, self-serve interaction with government for procedures such as passport renewal, identification card application and renewal, school registration, and many other routine interactions with government agencies. These remote procedures are explicitly authorized by French law and have stringent security, process, and usability requirements. Because of the very high rate of change in these processes, e-Citiz is built using software components and rules that are re-configured by analysts to accommodate change, not re-programmed by programmers. The configuration-time portion of e-Citiz is built on the Eclipse development framework. In the initial development, programmers used the Java language, but most changes to the processes are accommodated without additional programming.
“Versant Open Access JDO gives us the ability to handle the complexity of any procedure and lets us scale to high peak traffic levels, as required by e-Government applications,” explained Olivier Nicolas, Director for the e-Citiz application. “After a battery of tests, we chose Versant Open Access JDO. The performance allows us to respond to our customers’ expected traffic levels with highly responsive applications. The use of the Eclipse development framework in e-Citiz makes the Eclipse JSR220-ORM project a welcome development.”
Versant Open Access JDO forms the initial code base of the Versant-proposed Eclipse JSR220-ORM project, producing a standards-based, open-source, object-relational mapping (ORM) technology. Versant contributes mapping tools and runtimes for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 persistence and JDO 2.0 standards for object-relational mapping.
“e-Citiz is an important application of Versant Open Access JDO,” said Nick Ordon, president and chief executive officer of Versant. “I’m pleased that we will be able to expand the benefits of this technology to broader numbers of programmers and projects as the Eclipse JSR220-ORM project. The applications and programmers using Eclipse JSR220-ORM are important because going forward we are providing services and support to improve their effectiveness in the use of Eclipse JSR220-ORM.”
About Génigraph NSK
Génigraph
is a French software systems integrator specializing in object
technology. Génigraph is expert in object-oriented programming skills
throughout the entire life cycle of software development: architecture
(J2EE, .Net), design (UML), development (Java, C++, C#, JDO)
maintenance (out sourcing, third party maintenance). With the
acquisition of NSK Technologies in February 2004, Génigraph became the
leader in object-oriented technology in France with more than 130
engineers and revenue in 2004 of 12 million Euros.
For more information, call +33-1 45 33 64 63 or visit www.genigraph.fr.
About Versant Corporation
Versant Corporation (NASDAQ: VSNT) is an industry leader in specialized data management and open data access software. Using Versant's solutions, customers cut hardware costs, speed and simplify development, significantly reduce administration costs, and deliver products with a strong competitive edge. Versant’s solutions are deployed in a wide array of industries including telecommunications, financial services, transportation, manufacturing, and defense. With over 50,000 installations, Versant has been a highly reliable partner for over 15 years for Global 2000 companies such as British Airways, US Government, Financial Times, IBM, and MCI. For more information, call 510-789-1500 or visit www.versant.com .
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The Vitness add-on module delivers real-time views of performance data and analytical information about the Versant Object Database at the push of a button. Proactive database monitoring prevents potential faults that could be unexpectedly generated by an unobserved system - Versant Vitness alerts administrators before database availability is affected. Can life get any easier?
Versant Vorkout is a Database Reorganizer Tool 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. Last but not least Vorkout is tightly integrated and can be used through Versant Vitness.
Over time as objects grow or are deleted, empty holes are created in the tightly packed database resulting in fragmentation of data segments. Thus, performance starts degrading and disk usage is also increased.
Versant has addressed this issue by introducing Vorkout - the enhanced tool provides the user the ability to analyze a database for wasted space and reorganizes the data for reduced fragmentation and restored performance.
Vedding is an add-on software module for the Versant Object Database enabling automatic fail-over and recovery in the case of hardware or software failure. This is commonly known as a Fault Tolerance environment.
Vedding uses synchronous replication between two database instances and supports transparent re-synchronization in the event of a failure. Synchronous database replication mirrors the contents of one database to another in a predictable and orderly manner. This provides either local or geographically remote redundancy, which protects against the unavailability of data.
The Vhistle add-on module for Asynchronous Replication supports both master-slave and peer-to-peer asynchronous replication between multiple Versant Object Database servers. This can be used to replicate data to a distributed recovery site or to replicate data between multiple local object servers for increased performance and reliability.
In many applications, there is a need to replicate data, typically to improve availability, to improve performance by geographically co-locating databases with the applications that access the databases, to isolate decision support systems from online production systems, and to help in recovery from failures using warm-standby systems.
Vhisper provides Warm Standby capabilities to a Versant Object Database. The add-on module is used as an incremental rollforward recovery. It is designed to minimize the downtime in an emergency event.
With Vhisper, an up-to-date copy of the primary database is maintained - this is a Warm Standby database. In case of an emergency, the Vhisper's Warm Standby database can be updated very quickly to the state of the primary database. Instead of starting a full database restore that may take a considerable time with large databases, you just need to apply the last roll forward archive plus the logical.log of the primary database to the Warm Standby database - and you are ready for anything.
Varehouse is an add-on software module that enables the Versant Object Database to use 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 (High Availability Backup, HAbackup).
Varehouse, Versant's High Availability Backup solution, is a generic way of achieving continuous online backup of the Versant Object Database. It exploits the capabilities of special storage devices. It allows the user to execute certain operations such as, splitting a mirrored device, after bringing the database to a consistent state.
Vildcard enables you to run a discounted standby server in parallel to your initial Versant Object Database server.
Most likely, Vildcard is used for generic cold standby environments where backups are accomplished manually in certain periods.
reVind is an Add-on module for the Versant Object Database. 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.
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