Ingres Database 9.2Ingres Database 9.2, the latest versIon of Ingres Database, helps busInesses better leverage theIr InformatIon assets to thrIve In toDay’s competItIve envIronment

PRODUCTS

Java developers will appreciate the highly embeddable aspects of Ingres Database plus its support of the latest open standards, platforms and integration options with other industry-leading technology such as Eclipse. By providing the ability to scale up or down, Ingres Database is designed to help developers redirect their focus from data management to gaining business differentiation and competitive advantage. The release of Ingres Database 9.2 contains many significant enhancements specifically designed to improve the productivity of Java and .Net developers.

Envision New Possibilities

Ingres Database allows CIOs to proactively envision business possibilities and initiate those ideas. With Ingres Database, you pay an annual fee for support and maintenance. You pay only for the software you are using. This transparency contributes to reduced complexity and a lower cost of ownership. Combined with the new administration and development features of Ingres Database 9.2, this model helps CIOs deliver business innovation faster at a lower cost. The open source software movement has revolutionized the procurement and use of software. Open source software, like Ingres Database, uses a licensing and support model that is dramatically different from normal closed source vendors.

The key to the benefits of open source comes from choice. Because open source

software does not require a license fee, customers are no longer locked in. Customers are free to choose: their support provider; their development platforms; the right connectivity method; when and how much of the software they need to support. Open source puts control back in the customer’s hand.

Driving Innovation

Ingres Database does more than simply provide an open source database. Ingres Database 9.2 delivers enterprise tested features for truly robust data management. And with Ingres Database 9.2, you know your database software has been thoroughly tested to meet Ingres Corporation’s high level of quality control.

Reliable Database Engine

Ingres Database 9.2 adds new features to simplify the administration of Ingres and improve availability of the engine. While Ingres has decades of experience running mission critical applications, Ingres Database 9.2 raises the bar, making it easier to restore, debug and manage.

Key Benefits

> Provides solid infrastructure for

SOA environments

> Enables development

of internationalized

applications

> Improves performance, availability

and reliability

> Improves management

of unstructured data

> Improves database

administrator and

programmer productivity

> Offers choice of integrated

development environments (IDEs)

such as Eclipse, Java™ and .NET

> Choice of application development

languages including an updated

Ruby driver, PHP, Perl, Python,

Java, and .Net APIs as well as

traditional

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Ingres Database 9.2

has the features to

provide the

highest levels of

response required to

meet user

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Multiple Native Storage Capabilities

Different types of data have different storage requirements. While some vendors meet these requirements by bringing together disparate servers from multiple vendors, Ingres provides a single, cohesive server that supports multiple storage types. Ingres natively manages relational, ISAM, Hash, Heap, and Heapsort tables to provide optimum storage and performance. Ingres Database 9.2 simplifies database maintenance and administration by intuitively determining appropriate storage structure based on the table definition.

High Performance

Ingres Database 9.2 has added new features to provide improved levels of response required to meet user expectations even under heavy user load or with extremely complex OLAP queries.

Designed for Enterprise Development

Many enterprises today build software with Java. Ingres Database 9.2 has implemented new features to speed and simplify Java development. Ingres CAFÉ Version 0.5 software offers a powerful, fully integrated environment that helps software architects build and deploy Java and C+ solutions simply and easily on Ingres Database 9.2.

We’ve also enhanced Ingres Database 9.2 with key functionality for Java developers. Cursors have been enhanced to allow direct and relative positioning within the data set. This enables applications to scroll through information in any way required. New SQL functions improve programmer productivity, simplify development of BI and analytic queries.

Internationalized Applications

Unicode support enables a single software application or website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It allows data to be transported through many different systems without corruption. Ingres Database 9.2 now incorporates full UTF-8 support.

Indexes and sorts are ordered correctly according to the language settings. Characters are normalized. And Ingres supports coercion between UTF-8 and UTF-16.

Dynamic Query Caching

Execution plans generated from Dynamic SQL can automatically be cached to boost performance where optimization time is significant. This new feature can improve performance of repeated queries by up to two orders of magnitude.

cluster support for hIgh avaIlabIlIty anD scalabIlItyIngres Database runs on clusters of servers, providing transparent high availability and scalability

benefits.

eXtensIve platform supportIngres Database runs on virtually every popular operating system, including Linux, Windows and

many varieties of UNIX. Multi-platform support gives you the ability to choose the most appropriate

system vendor, increasing your flexibility. The table below lists the platforms supported by Ingres

Database.

LOB Locators

Large objects can be retrieved and manipulated more efficiently in Ingres Database 9.2 with LOB locators. For example, you can jump directly to a specific location within a large object and return just the portion needed to satisfy the requirement.

Scalable Server Architecture

The Ingres Database server can grow to meet user demands without rewrites or modification, running smoothly on a single-processor desktop system or multiprocessor enterprise servers.

High Performance

Ingres Database 9.2 has the features to provide the highest levels of response required to meet user expectations.

Easy to Manage

Ingres is designed to require the minimum amount of maintenance and maximum availability. These qualities lead to cost savings in many ways, including less effort for database administrators, easier scheduled maintenance and monitoring, and less downtime.

Ingres Database 9.2 takes our easy-to-manage platform to the next level by reducing the time needed to resolve issues when they do occur. We’ve improved stack tracking and exception handling as well as expanded the information reported by the server for administrative functions. We’ve also improved the default configuration settings to get better out-of-the-box performance.

Flexible Architecture

No two organizations have the same IT infrastructure. Flexibility is the key to being able to support a given architecture, and Ingres provides a number of options to achieve this.

Flexible development options

Applications are built on a foundation of data access, and Ingres Database gives you the ability to productively use a wide range of development environments. This flexibility allows you to take advantage of Ingres Database without retraining your valuable development staff.

Development platform options

Ingres Database supports development with JDBC, ODBC, .Net, PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby. Ingres has also developed a Data Tools Plug-in for Eclipse, so developers can use a wide range of development tools to build applications that leverage Ingres and protect your investment in your staff ’s existing skills. Ingres Corporation also provides a highly productive rapid development and deployment environment: OpenROAD.

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About Ingres Corporation

Ingres corporation is a leading provider of open source database management software. built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader

in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. the company’s

partnerships with leading open source providers further enhance the Ingres value proposition. Ingres has major development, sales and support centers

throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the united states and internationally.

OPERATING SYSTEM VERSIONS HARDWARE

LINUX Distribution base Kernel glibc compiler Intel® x86

rhel 4 2.6.9 2.3.4 3.4.5

rhel 5 2.6.18 2.5 4.1.1

suse 10 2.6.16 2.4 – 31 4.1.0

ubuntu 2.6.15 2.3.6 4.0.3

rhel 4 2.6.9 2.3.4 3.4.5 x86_64 (em64t / amD64)rhel 5 2.6.18 2.5 4.1.1

suse 10 2.6.16 2.4 – 31 4.1.0

ubuntu 2.6.15 2.3.6 4.0.3

rhel 3 2.4.21 2.3.4 3.4.5 Itanium

rhel 4 2.6.9 2.3.4 3.4.5

suse 9 2.6.5 2.3.3 3.3.3

HP-UX 11.23, 11.31 pa-rIsc or Itanium

HP TRU64 5.1b alpha

HP VMS 8.2 or 8.3 alpha

IBM AIX 5l 5.3 or 6.1 power pc®

MS WINDOWS vista, server 2008, server 2005, Xp Intel® x86, x86_64 (em64t / amD64)

SUN SOLARIS 9, 10 sparc or x86

SCO unix®Ware 7.1.4 Intel® x86

openserver 3.2.5.0.7 Intel® x86

Supported Platforms

Ingres Database—the open source model you want, the enterprise strength you need.

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