UniVerse Empowering business solutions Highlights UniVerse Extended Relational Database reach the market and begin to generate revenues more rapidly. • A high performance, highly The world is becoming smarter. In the face scalable, embeddable data of global change our companies, institutions Standards-Compliant and Flexible, UniVerse: management system, UniVerse and industries are infusing new intelligence powers applications for small into processes and systems that manage the • Provides data access, storage and and medium businesses and ® exchange of goods and services. management capabilities across Microsoft large enterprises Windows®, Linux and UNIX® platforms. A smarter planet demands a smarter computing • Accelerates development and • Features a native, record-oriented integrated time to market with a new model. Software developers are being asked Developer Toolkit to build intelligent, interconnected and development environment. affordable new solutions to meet this need. In • Scales from the smallest workgroup to • Provides the performance and this demanding environment, a conventional robustness necessary for highly thousands of concurrent users. available, global computing database isn’t always enough. Developers need a high-performance, highly scalable, easy-to-use • Allocates table space automatically and • Reduces total cost of ownership database offering rapid deployment and a rapid dynamically to optimize performance and by lowering deployment and return on investment. minimize disk usage for maximum efficiency. administration costs UniVerse, built smarter from the ground up, Smarter for Less • Delivers web services via many offers a unique combination of an intuitive protocols and deployment tools UniVerse gives administrators the tools they development environment and a powerful, need to streamline DBA tasks. Features include reliable engine underneath. automated administration, maximized use of In contrast to traditional databases, UniVerse storage, and effective schema changes. These delivers easy-to-understand data modeling save time and money during development and and creates fewer tables. Using XML-like data during ongoing operations. structures, developers can create embedded Developers also benefit with UniVerse, seeing solutions quickly and easily, and their solutions faster development through the use of the Reuse and access U2 business logic from external applications using the U2 Web Services Developer Tool Rocket Software, Inc. UniVerse Empowering business solutions Additional Tools integrated development environment and modules (PAM) and lightweight directory graphical tools, enabling them to develop high- access protocol (LDAP) to enable centralized UniVerse users can benefit from performance applications. Developers can use authentication. the following development tools: many open standards, including XML, .NET, Java, SOAP and web services. The system administrator can determine how • U2 Web Development users are authenticated in various situations, Environment—an object-based High Availability allowing UniVerse PAM-aware applications to application platform for rapid development and scalable The need for 24X7 operations requires resilient, switch authentication methods without a costly deployment of Web applications recoverable databases. UniVerse delivers high application rewrite. availability, serviceability and recoverability. • U2.NET—an ADO.NET provider Development Tools and Microsoft™ Visual Studio Built-in features like dynamic file allocation, The Basic Developer Toolkit (BDT) is a modern, add-ins for MultiValue-centric online index build and online resize help keep programming in a .NET the database working in production and out of integrated development and debugging tool for framework maintenance mode. Developers can add fields to UniVerse Basic developers. Based on Eclipse, it existing files without taking the database offline provides multiple views with all the information • IBM.NET—a relational ADO. you need to build applications quickly. All of NET provider for UniVerse and for reorganization. the resources you need are here, including a UniData as well as IBM DB2®, and IBM Informix® Dynamic UniVerse Data Replication offers a simple way resource explorer, code editor, dictionary editor, Server. IBM.NET includes SQL- to effectively maintain a copy of a production and an integrated debugger. based Add-ins for Visual Studio database on a separate server for a failover and supports SSLStream, LINQ, scenario. This feature also has the advantage of UniVerse provides several options for integration Silverlight, WPF and XAML reducing the load on the production server by into the Microsoft .NET Framework. This flexibility allows you to build and deploy a wide • SystemBuilder—a cross- offloading work such as reporting. variety of Web-based applications that work platform, complete, rapid application development Security seamlessly with .NET. environment with flexible, UniVerse supports Open Secure Sockets Layer modern deployment and UniVerse supports both standards-based and (OpenSSL) to create secure communication presentation options native .NET API’s, including support for the channels for UniVerse-based applications. SSL Compact Framework. This allows you to extend • wIntegrate—advanced terminal is supported in UniVerse Basic programming your application into the world of handheld emulation and application interfaces as well as in standards-based devices. Microsoft Windows CE based mobile/ enhancement tool for creating and native interfaces. SSL provides server modern user interfaces embedded devices such as PDAs, mobile authentication, encryption and message integrity phones, factory controllers, or set-top boxes can and, optionally, client authentication. UniVerse now be a part of your solution. also supports SSLstream, extending SSL support into the .NET environment. UniVerse supports numerous Java-based interfaces as well, including JBDC for standards- UniVerse Automatic Data Encryption (ADE) based connectivity and our own UniObjects Rocket U2 Office was designed to give you a finer level of for Java high speed native interface. You can 4600 South Ulster St control to address diverse security and usability leverage powerful Java programming tools Suite 1100 requirements. ADE allows you to configure including the Eclipse framework to enable Denver, CO 80237 encryption of data at the field or record level, Tel: (720) 475-8002 powerful, platform-independent solutions. Fax: (617) 630-7349 using a selection of encryption algorithms. Encrypted data can be additionally protected System Requirements wIntegrate is a trademark of Rocket with passwords, allowing access only to The UniVerse extended relational database Software, Inc. in the United States, authorized groups or users other countries or both. solution runs on major hardware platforms Today’s users and administrators have an running Microsoft Windows, Linux and UNIX. All other products or product increasing number of userids and passwords names are trademarks or registered Please see the U2 Product Availability Matrix at trademarks of their respective that must be remembered and managed. rocketsoftware.com/u2 for more information. owners. UniVerse supports pluggable authentication For more information, please contact your U2 sales representative or U2 Business Partner or visit us online at: www.rocketsoftware.com/u2 Rocket Software, Inc. © Rocket Software, Inc. .