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Today's relational database products are seriously limited in
capability and scope because of their basic architectural design.
This basic design, which involves task-centric processing and
a normalized data structure has become the modern day RDBMS's
Achilles heel. Their most fundamental design characteristics contribute
to significant problematic issues relating to performance, scalability,
versatility, compatibility and management complexity. We believe
that the net affect of these limitations is the single most significant
roadblock to successful enterprise computing and information processing.
MPbase is a unique new way to structure, store and access data.
As such, it has the potential to obsolete all other known methods
of handling data (i.e. all RDBMS, Object, Relational and Post-relational
products and flat file systems). Each MPbase is created as the
thinnest possible veneer on top of the OS.
An MPbase database is as fast at loading or updating data as a
flat file. It is faster than a flat file at accessing data and
therefore much faster than any RDBMS. MPbase uses a common, naturalized,
compressed/encrypted representation of data. It is network-attached
via TCP/IP, and can be scaled and housed in a massively-parallel,
loosely-coupled I/O environment driven by commodity PC's or workstations
running any version of UNIX. Scale and desired performance can
match whatever is required.
The resulting data/information environment has the potential to
be all things to all people: a high performance, one-time representation
of data, read or write, to all types of applications or computer
engines, at the same time providing whatever view of the same
data is dictated by the end user.
MPbase is a breakthrough technology that offers compelling arguments for change to any executive seeking to dramatically improve the cost/performance model for application development, deployment and long-term value. It is the only available database technology that can qualify as a standard crossing all application, environmental, and enterprise boundaries.
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