McObject Embedded Database Newsletter - April, 2008
Product News
eXtremeDB Kernel Mode Stakes Out New Terrain
McObject has released eXtremeDB Kernel Mode (KM), a version of the company’s embedded in-memory database system designed for deployment in the operating system kernel.
By operating at this innermost and most privileged level of computer systems, eXtremeDB-KM leverages the high priority, zero-latency responsiveness afforded to kernel tasks—and meets the data sorting, access and retrieval needs of applications that place key functions there.
“An order of magnitude faster…”
Representative applications performed an order of magnitude faster with eXtremeDB Kernel Mode than with the standard user-mode, all-in-memory edition. These applications simulate an access-control system with its policy engine running in kernel mode (as is often the case in such software). When the database resides in the kernel along with the policy engine, performance is dramatically accelerated by eliminating context switches, or jumps between kernel and user space.
Other high performance systems that can benefit from a local, kernel mode database when placing application logic in the OS kernel include telecommunications, operating system monitors, and financial applications including arbitrage and options trading, to name a few, McObject CEO and Co-founder Steve Graves said.
Read more in McObject’s press release or on to the eXtremeDB-KM Web page. And look for a technical article on eXtremeDB-KM by Andrei Gorine, McObject’s Chief Technology Officer, in the May issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal!
Events
Embedded Systems Silicon Valley
Visit McObject in booth 839!
Conference Dates: April 14 – 18, 2008
Exhibition Dates: April 15 – 17, 2008
Location: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA
At this largest U.S. embedded systems event, McObject will demo eXtremeDB Kernel Mode, its new database system designed to run in the operating system kernel. Our demo illustrates how this new technology slashes the time and CPU cycles required for database tasks.
Also visit us in booth 839 if you’d like to…Optimize embedded software for performance, persistence, cost and form factor using eXtremeDB Fusion, our hybrid on-disk/in-memory database…Build fault tolerance into software using eXtremeDB High Availability…Or discuss any other embedded data management challenge! To set a time to talk, e-mail me or phone 1-425-888-8505. I hope to see you at ESC.
The Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose provides unparalleled access to useful emerging and established technologies, and to technology industry innovators. Architects and engineers attending the conference can choose from more than 160 training sessions, courses and seminars covering methodologies, processes and techniques fundamental to developing embedded systems.
(See More Events, below, to find McObject at other upcoming conferences…)
Partner News
McObject Partner eCosCentric Helps Banish ‘Homegrown’ Database Habit
eCosCentric, provider of the fast-growing open source eCos embedded operating system, is extending its eCosPro Developer’s Kit to help developers break the ‘homegrown’ database habit. The kit (starting with ARM9 processor versions) will include a version of the eXtremeDB embedded database, so that users can move beyond coding their own data management and gain the reliability, scalability, and development ease of a full-featured, tiny-footprint embedded database.
Get complete details of the eXtremeDB - eCosPro Developer’s Kit bundle.
Customer News
eXtremeDB Tackles IP Convergence in NextPoint Networks’ IntelliConnect
NextPoint™ Networks, a leader in fixed-mobile connectivity (FMC) solutions, has integrated McObject’s eXtremeDB™ in-memory embedded database system to handle real-time tasks in multiple applications within its IntelliConnect® System product family, which enables operators to deliver intelligent, secure and scalable session management between fixed, mobile and blended IP networks.
“IP convergence is requiring telecom equipment vendors’ products to support more complex applications in real-time. Leveraging a tightly integrated database engine like McObject’s commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) eXtremeDB offers reliability, development efficiency, and the flexibility to cost-effectively add on new application features in the future,” said Stephen Balacco, Director, Embedded Software Practice at Venture Development Corporation (VDC).
For more details read the press release.
Users of Popular ‘Frost’ Software Warm Up to Perst Embedded Database
McObject’s all-Java Perst™ open source, object-oriented embedded database system has significantly improved performance, stability and development ease in the popular open-source Frost client software for the Freenet global peer-to-peer network.
Within Frost, Perst replaced an open source embedded SQL database. The new client has already been downloaded by thousands of Freenet users who are enjoying a “much better” application experience due to Perst, according to a Frost project leader. Click here for the complete story.
In The News
Keeping a Lid on Blowouts, Control Engineering, April, 2008. In this article, Eric Milne, electrical and software chief engineer at Hydril, tells how his company uses the eXtremeDB High Availability database as a key software component in the company’s oil and gas drilling control system.
Kernel Mode Gets Data Faster, Embedded Now blog of Embedded Computing Design, April 3, 2008. Adding kernel mode operation gives embedded designers one more database option to get the most out of their platform.
Databases for Java ME, follow up: Check out the new ProScout sample app, Terrence Barr’s Blog, March 2, 2008. Sun Microsystems’ Java Mobile & Embedded Community Evangelist alerts readers that the community’s Perst Lite project is now live, complete McObject’s sample ProScout application (with full source code). “A few years ago who would have thought we'd have object-oriented persistence on mass-market phones? Clearly, Java ME is growing up,” Barr writes.
Speaking of Perst…
Check out the new Perst User’s Guide and Tutorial, just posted to McObject’s Web site. It takes the reader step-by-step through the basic database functions—such as storing, searching and retrieving objects in the database—as well as advanced topics like schema evolution and database replication.
More Events…
NXTcomm08
Embedded Databases & the Ecosystem of Network-enabled
Conference Dates: June 16 – 19, 2008
Exhibition Dates: June 17 – 19, 2008
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
McObject is exhibiting in booth SL10409 at NXTcomm08, the definitive conference and exhibition for telecom and network communications. Join us to discuss how our eXtremeDB embedded database technology enables proven communications solutions from Motorola, SOMA Networks, NextPoint Networks, F5 Networks, Lifetree Convergence, Certeon and many others—and how it can add critical reliability, performance and development ease in yours!
With over 200,000 net square feet of exhibit space and an anticipated 20,000+ attendees from around the world, NXTcomm08 is the major venue for the converged communications, information and entertainment sectors. The event is produced jointly by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom).
To meet with McObject Engineering or Sales at NXTcomm08, please e-mail us or phone 425 888-8505.
We are committed to keeping the eXtremeDB and Perst development communities as informed as possible. If you have any questions or suggestions for our newsletter, please e-mail info@mcobject.com.
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