Joseph Dal Molin wrote: > > Just ran across this interesting development...an alternative to > software licenses and open source for that matter displayed at Comdex is > hardware: > > http://www.calpont.com/go/products.html > > Link: http://www.gcn.com/21_34/news/20671-1.html > > Government Computer News > 12/16/02; Vol. 21 No. 34 > > Small and wireless are hot trends > > By John Breeden II, Carlos A. Soto, and Thomas R. Temin > GCN Staff > > Calpont Corp. showed > > a prototype of a radically different database management system in > hardware. President Valerie Borthwick, a former Oracle Corp. executive, > said the Rockwell, Texas, company?s Novare HDB promises a 100-fold > increase in system performance and eliminates the complexity of the > typical enterprise DBMS? layers of optimizing software. > > Ready next fall, Novare HDB will comprise an application server, a DBMS > engine card and 112G of storage, all in a 19-inch rackmount card cage. > It will emulate IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Oracle databases plus a > superset of a half-dozen languages based on Structured Query Language. > No software licenses are required.
A glance at their Web page reveals that this device uses SDRAM as its primary storage - hence the "100-fold increase in system performance". The 112GB storage mentioned above is all RAM! There seems to be provision for optional SCSI disc-based secondary storage, and presumably some mechanism for ensuring the data doesn't evaporate when the power goes down... Tim C
