McObject Embedded Database Newsletter - October, 2008
Product News
On Nov. 1, McObject opens beta testing for eXtremeDB 4.0, the newest version of our real-time embedded database system. New features include multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) and support for KD-Tree indexes. Click here to sign up for the beta test.
Company News
McObject Extends Its Reach in Asia and Europe
McObject is expanding internationally. We’ve opened a Beijing office with both marketing and technical staff, and welcomed a distributor in Turkey.
China
Vice President Husen Tu, who heads the new McObject Asia – Pacific division, comes to McObject with deep experience in embedded databases and a winning track record of penetrating China’s fast-growing telecommunications, energy, transportation, defense and other vital real-time and embedded software market segments. His resume includes stints heading China operations for Solid Information Technology and for Siemens Fujitsu. For more information read our press release.
Turkey
McObject also welcomed G-Tek in Ankara, Turkey as a distributor. Turkey’s technology market is expanding rapidly, thanks to economic growth as well as targeted government investment in domestic defense and aerospace industries. In addition to reselling and providing engineering, training and other services related to McObject’s eXtremeDB and Perst embedded database systems, G-Tek also represents embedded products from Green Hills Software, Telelogic and LDRA Software Technology. Get more details.
Events
Innovation 2008: Telelogic User Group Conference
Conference Dates: October 26 – 29, 2008
Location: Hilton Austin, Austin, TX
McObject is a sponsor and exhibitor at this Telelogic User Group Conference for the Americas. The event offers more than 100 sessions on the technologies, methodologies, best practices and Telelogic solutions to innovate, integrate and automate your systems and software development lifecycle.
Attendees will hear first-hand how customers leverage solutions such as the Rhapsody Model-Driven Development (MDD) environment, network with peers from many industries, and learn about valuable, integrated partner offerings including McObject’s eXtremeDB. Please e-mail McObject to
Embedded Systems Boston
Conference Dates: October 26 – 30, 2008
Exhibition Dates: October 28 – 29, 2008
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
McObject will exhibit in booth 1109 at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston – the fastest-growing embedded event in the world. Our engineers and sales staff will offer demos of the eXtremeDB and Perst embedded database systems. Learn how proven embedded database technology can enhance your application performance and reliability, as well as development efficiency, in fields including telecommunications, industrial control, military and aerospace, and consumer electronics.
ESC provides unparalleled access to useful emerging and established technologies, and to technology industry innovators. Architects and engineers from around the globe are drawn to the conference for its high-caliber, solutions-oriented technical sessions, invaluable opportunities to network with peers and suppliers, and Exhibit Hall with more than 150 vendors offering the building-blocks of world-class solutions.
If you are attending ESC Boston and would like to meet with McObject Engineering or Sales, please e-mail us.
24th Annual Futures & Options Expo
Conference Date: November 10 – 12, 2008
Exhibition Date: November 11 – 12, 2008
Location: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL
Algorithmic trading and other real-time financial systems increasingly require real-time database technology – and McObject’s eXtremeDB embedded database is on display at this largest futures industry event in the world. We will exhibit with our partner, Object Computing Inc., in OCI’s Booth, #340. OCI’s impressive track record includes developing real-time trading and other financial solutions using eXtremeDB. To learn more about the event, click here. If you are attending Futures & Options Expo and would like to meet with McObject Engineering or Sales, please e-mail us.
Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference (RTECC)
San Diego, CA – Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Santa Clara, CA – Thursday, January 29, 2009
Dallas, TX – Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Boston, MA – Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Ottawa, ON – Thursday, May 21, 2009
Join us at RTECC in your
RTECC features open-door technical sessions in conjunction with tabletop exhibits. For more information about the RTECC events, including hours and locations, see the conference Web site at www.rtecc.com.
Please free to contact McObject to arrange to meet at any of these events.
Awards
McObject’s eXtremeDB Kernel Mode (KM), the first-ever embedded database system designed for deployment in the operating system kernel, has won the top prize – the Reader’s Choice award – in eg3.com’s competition to choose the most exciting technology introduced in the first half of 2008! Read more.
In the News
Navigating the Technological Minefield, ATCA Newsletter, August – September 2008. In this popular telecom and networking industry news source, Editor-In-Chief Lance Leventhal profiles McObject and the benefits of using embedded databases in real-time communications systems. "If your application has a lot of data to store, such as subscriber information, routing tables, security keys, historical readings, or video clips, you may need an embedded database,” he writes. Products like eXtremeDB differ from enterprise databases in that they’re often implemented as libraries, eliminating client/server communication overhead; offer a faster native interface; deliver greater predictability; are easier to use and maintain (“no DBA required”); and are more scalable than self-developed solutions, he writes.
Using a High Performance Embedded Newsletter, ATCA Newsletter, August – September 2008. This article by McObject Co-Founder and CEO Steve Graves reviews key concepts by which to evaluate an embedded database system for telecom and networking applications. The topics include API, in-memory vs. disk-based storage, and database architectures.
L1 Teams Up With McObject and TI to Make Face Reader More Convenient, Third Factor, September, 2008. This news source on biometric identification and authentication technologies reported on the role of McObject’s eXtremeDB Fusion embedded database in L1 Identify Solutions’ face reader access control solution.
Customer News
Biometrics-Based Face Reader Leverages eXtremeDB Fusion &
With McObject’s eXtremeDB Fusion embedded database system running on embedded Linux, and media processors based on DaVinci™ technology from Texas Instruments (
Facial recognition technology is inherently data intensive. Using McObject’s proven database to manage facial “templates” reduced development and QA cycles, while eXtremeDB Fusion features such as support for transactions and automatic recovery safeguard data integrity while ensuring stable, continuous operation. eXtremeDB Fusion was also chosen for its exceptional performance and for its small footprint (approximately 100K code size). Read more.
Perst Lite Brings Embedded Database Superpowers to Carbon Hero
UK- and Netherlands-base startup Carbon Hero uses McObject’s Perst Lite open source, object-oriented embedded database system in a Java ME application that rides along in the user’s BlackBerry or Nokia smartphone, leverages the built-in GPS to gather data on his or her travels, and presents the user’s personal carbon footprint in order to increase environmental awareness.
Perst Lite’s object-orientation and its support for R-Tree indexes provide the efficiency needed to handle GIS data within the devices’ limited memory and storage constraints, Carbon Hero CTO Nick Burch said.
He also praised Perst Lite’s open source, dual licensing distribution. “We were able to get the source code straight away, and start playing. If we wondered how something worked, we could look at the source code, if desired. And McObject’s technical support has been excellent,” Burch said. Read the press release.
We are committed to keeping the eXtremeDB development community as informed as possible. If you have any questions or suggestions for our newsletter, please e-mail info@mcobject.com.
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