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| SQL Anywhere 11 Released Sybase iAnywhere announces that SQL Anywhere version 11 is now available to the marketplace. With more than 10 million deployed seats, SQL Anywhere has established its reputation as an enterprise-caliber database and synchronization solution designed to be widely deployed in environments with little or no onsite IT support. Thousands of application partners worldwide embed SQL Anywhere in server, desktop, remote office and mobile applications. SQL Anywhere 11 continues to push the boundaries of enterprise-caliber database features such as embedded full-text search, parallel sorting, and immediately maintained materialized views by optimizing them for environments outside the data center. In addition, SQL Anywhere continues to advance its mobile database and synchronization leadership, including support for BlackBerry devices, MySQL, and background data synchronization. New developer features in SQL Anywhere 11, along with a new Web Edition target the emerging Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications. SQL Anywhere 11 boasts over 200 new features and enhancements and continues to redefine functionality typically only found in enterprise-class databases: - Performance, Reliability, Scalability by setting a TPC-C performance record for solutions less than $35,000 through significant multi-user performance enhancements such as index compression and simple statement caching; query performance improvements such as parallel sort, parallel index scans, and index-only retrieval have also been added; - Frontline Analytics provides advanced data analysis in remote locations with enterprise features including embeddable full-text search, regular expression searching, immediately maintained materialized views, read access to mirror servers, and OLAP support; - Advanced Synchronization across occasionally connected networks through a new Relay Server architecture, load balancing and high availability features, background synchronization, new synchronization client platform support including RIM BlackBerry and embedded Linux and support for MySQL; - Developer Freedom to use development tools and technologies of choice. SQL Anywhere 11 extends its broad support for languages and platforms with external stored procedures written in .NET and Perl, full .NET 3.5 support (ADO.NET 3.5 provider, Entity Framework and LINQ support), Visual Studio 2008 integration, and enhanced support for PHP, Perl, and Python. The free developer edition of SQL Anywhere 11 is available for download here. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |