Sybase ships new database
- Posted:
- 12:51 26 Jun 2001
- Topics:
- Databases | Sybase | Data Management
Sliding in during the last week of the month, the two companies are the latest in a flurry of June database releases.
Three of the top five database vendors, as ranked by analyst group Dataquest, have issued new releases this month. The exceptions are Informix, which was recently purchased by IBM, and Microsoft, which demonstrated its forthcoming version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon, at the TechEd developers conference in Atlanta.
Earlier in the month, IBM and Oracle each brought to market new iterations of their databases.
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In ASE 12.5, Sybase is keeping with the common themes of dynamic performance, enhanced data management, and security that its main competitors touted with their recent releases.
With ASE 12.5, database administrators can alter performance mechanisms - such as load and resource allocation - without rebooting the database. Sybase also enhanced the product's clustering capabilities by enabling two-node clusters in which both systems work simultaneously and either machine can pick up when the other fails.
Sybase also extended the data management functionality of ASE so that XML documents can be stored, indexed, and queried from the database.
The company also furthered its security with row-level access rules and encryption of communication between clients and servers.
"We're a little different from our competitors in that we don't view databases as one size fits all," said Tom Traubitz, Sybase's senior marketing manager for ASE.
Instead, Sybase offers separate databases for mobile, transaction processing, and data warehousing. ASE is the transaction processing database.
Although Sybase, like Oracle, has been "reinventing" itself into an e-commerce platform provider, Dataquest's recent numbers showed it defended its market share, judging on revenue from new licences for 2000. The previous year, Dataquest listed at 3.3%; this year it weighed in at 3.2%. Sybase also surpassed Informix, which last year had 5% of the market and this year dropped to 3%.
Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft's rankings are 33.8%, 30.1%, and 14.9%, respectively. All three, in fact, gained one or two percentage points over the past year.
With its database, Red Hat joins the open-source troops Great Bridge, NuSphere, and Abriasoft.
