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Versant Delivering 20 Years of Performance-Oriented Software Innovation

Versant Corporation is the industry leader Improves Versant Developer/Customer Improves Improves Operational in object database management software. Feature Benefit Agility Scalability Efficiencies technology enables No ORM mapping, for optimal Reduces application code by software developers to create unique, transparency up to 40% ✔ extreme performance applications to manage Easy object graph navigation Achieves 10X improvement in and fast caching system performance without complex information in environments that complex programming ✔ ✔ ✔ demand the highest performance and high Seamless schema evolution Shortens feature development availability. These applications do far more for shorter development sprints life cycle and improves code ✔ refactoring ability than run day-to-day business operations; they Enables test-driven development Increases code quality and define businesses and deliver competitive ++, JAVA, .NET via API-driven database setup improves time to market ✔ advantage. Versant object database solutions and teardown are deployed in more than 100,000 sites CLIENT Higher concurrent throughput Reduces cloud server costs by CACHE with fewer CPUs up to 50% ✔ ✔ across a wide range of industries, including No data duplication or Reduces storage requirements telecommunications, defense, financial redundant indexes by up to 50% ✔ ✔ MONITORING OBJECT INSPECTOR services, life sciences, transportation, ODBMS Leverages parallel processing— Increases mission-critical system manufacturing, and online gaming. ADMINISTRATION XML TOOLKIT Application querying, object creation, performance by 10X to 100X updating, and deleting—of ✔ ✔ Architecture varying model complexity and concurrency Objects are managed Versant Object SERVER CACHE SERVER CACHE QUERY QUERY via logical identity, Leverages fault tolerant servers Achieves a factor 5 increase in Database Technology QUERY SERVER CCACACA HE QUERY SERVER CCACACHE allowing physical and simplified administration database administrator productivity ✔ QUERDISCY SERVER CACHE QUERDISCY SERVER CACHE REPLICATION distribution of objects Global organizations of all sizes and across DISC DISC REPLICATION for archiving and multiple industries rely on Versant Object DISC DISC Accelerate Innovation V/OD REPLICATION V/OD partitioning, with no Database technology to serve as the V/OD V/OD required code changes Developmental Agility: Versant V/OD V/OD to the application. foundation for developing, implementing, eliminates mapping, significantly increasing and managing the world’s most complex developer agility when implementing real-time data management applications. complex, object-oriented data models. From intelligent NGN, battlefield simulation, This 3-in-1 solution fully supports real-time and medical imaging platforms, to airline Simply Superior transactional applications that use large data Operational Efficiencies and reservation systems and global news Versant is the database management system volumes and highly complex models with Lower Total Cost of Ownership: document archives, Versant streamlines that speeds and simplifies the work of high concurrency requirements. The solution Agility, performance, and scalability combine and accelerates real-time data management database developers by combining caching, provides superior performance to that of to speed and streamline operational solutions. mapping, and database technology into a relational database management systems efficiencies across the enterprise, significantly single superior solution. coupled with cache acceleration technologies. With Versant, agile developers can easily reducing the time, resources, and expense deliver competitive-edge, extreme of data management solutions. Downsizing performance real-time applications that Performance-Oriented Scalability: development cycles is instrumental in accelerating time to market and gaining exhibit unprecedented operational efficiency. Versant effectively handles required true competitive advantage. Versant also persistence services, providing scalability, Because Versant drives performance-oriented simplifies database administration, allowing while managing availability and performance scalability, organizations can experience lower database administrators to increase work- requirements created by increasing licensing costs, reduced production hardware flow efficiencies that further lower the total concurrency and growing data volume. The footprints, and lower ongoing administration cost of ownership. result is performance-oriented scalability costs. Further, Versant helps enterprises with the full power of SQL-like query and reduce risk, achieve faster time to market, transactional consistency. and lower total cost of ownership.

2 3 Versant Transactional Data Management Solution The Agility, Speed, and Scalability to Manage Complex Persistent Object Models

Versant Object Database supports multi-user, Versant Compact allows online mission-critical applications in distributed compaction of production database computing environments. Versant enables data volumes for special categories of users to store, manage, and distribute applications that are performing heavy information that often cannot be administered Versant Add-On Options data deletions. effectively through traditional database For Advanced Capabilities • Ensures continuous operations at technologies: Versant FTS (Fault Tolerant Server) required performance levels by eliminating • Real-time data, graphics, images, video, provides highly reliable operations in performance degradation due to audio, and unstructured text mission-critical environments via fragmentation active-active synchronous replication. • Dynamic, graph-oriented data, including Versant SQL provides JDBC/ODBC db4objects Open Source network management data and advanced Cloud Ready Mission Critical Enabled • Provides transparent failure recovery driver connectivity, allowing the use of Database by Versant Drives financial instruments by connecting database clients to Versant Object Database breaks down the Versant Object Database can integrate standard SQL-enabled tooling to access synchronized copies of the database Next Generation Innovation • Meta-data, data aiding integration of diverse barrier to data locality management in cloud- thousands of databases over a like number Versant Object Database. stored on physically separate computers. systems, and workflow information, which, of locations on a variety of hardware and Versant sponsors the development, based auto-scaling architectures, providing Versant HA Backup (High Availability together, drive construction of applications software platforms. Each database offers a commercial licensing, and support of , seamless map reduce for cloud deployments Versant Management Center Backup) enables Versant Object Databases that integrate diverse systems and add variable storage capacity far beyond the a lightweight, open source object database via parallel-distributed queries with auto monitors Versant Object Databases to use the mirroring and backup features of new functionality, often via the Internet existing capacity of today’s operating systems. for administration-free, low concurrency, aggregation. Versant fully supports cloud following the standard managing console/ enterprise storage systems. Versant allows developers to implement small data volume Java and .NET applications. deployment topologies via parallel query, remote agent paradigm. Real-time Speed and Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD), and a variety of advanced database features, • Performs online backup of very large data From devices and equipment to complex • Supports industry standard formats for Massive Scalability distributed object references. Developers including fault tolerance, replication services, volumes within seconds, without impacting event processing systems, db4o excels in a remote monitoring, data integration, complex monitoring known as SNMP The object-oriented, balanced client-server achieve a seamless transition from transaction response times, including wide range of embedded applications due to event processing, and more. architecture of the Versant Object Database non-scalable relational database structures • Integrates with other third-party SNMP- consistent backup of multiple distributed its performance, transparency, flexibility, and provides the basis for high-performance, to distributed infrastructures in which they enabled monitoring tools databases ease of use. massively scalable distributed applications. can leverage the benefits of a flexible, low- Versant Asynch Replication supports db4o offers Java and .NET developers the Versant delivers superior performance over cost cloud environment. master-slave and peer-to-peer asynchronous ultimate persistence solution by providing the that of relational database management replication between multiple object servers. ability to store and retrieve any application systems in managing complex data object with a single line of code and by applications. Versant also processes a wide • Replicates data to distributed sites for eliminating the need to predefine or maintain variety of abstract data types in a highly recovery and data localization a separate, rigid data model. concurrent, high-performance manner. • Replicates data between multiple local As a result, Versant significantly reduces object servers for increased performance application development time for data and reliability management systems and improves system Programming Languages performance. Versant online management utilities allow • Supports C++, Java, .NET routine maintenance to be performed while • XML for data import/export the database is running—backup operations; Programming Features manage log files; dynamically evolve database • Fault tolerant distribution schema; add, delete, and compress volumes • Transparent object persistence on disk storage and related functions. The • Cloud-connected data distribution across multiple databases utilities provide multiple levels of administrative • Seamless data distribution across access and application security. multiple databases • Enterprise-class high availability options • Dynamic schema evolution • Low to zero administration • End-to-end object architecture • Fine-grained • Multithreading, multisession • International character sets • High-speed data capture • Real-time performance • Support for standards 4 5