Four Js Announces Webinar on High Throughput Databases

Business Wire, June 11, 2009

Webinar to run at 11:00am Pacific Time on Jun 24, 2009

Focus is on how new DBMS architectures take advantage of modern hardware

Special guest: Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Application Development and Deployment, IDC

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Four Js announced today plans for a webcast that describes new database architectures, showing how they can better take advantage of modern multi-CPU, multi-core hardware.

The major relational databases were designed in the 70’s, when Nixon was president, the Apple II had just been released, Ethernet had just been invented, and VMS was a brand new operating system. They still drag along architectural baggage from those long ago times. These days, the interesting database innovations are coming from new companies whose products take advantage of the latest architectures, rather than being bound to the ancient history of computing.

Carl Olofson of IDC got it right: "Although the top 5 RDBMS vendors represent over 90 percent of the worldwide market, there is plenty of dynamism and growth potential in the remaining 10 percent, where differentiators that include low-cost, extraordinarily high throughput, embedability, and unusual architectures are aimed at niche data management requirements. These vendors certainly bear watching." (Taken from the IDC Competitive Analysis, "Worldwide Relational Database Management Systems 2007 Vendor Shares", Carl Olofson, document number 212840, June 2008.)

“What’s the point of having a virtualized server environment on multi-core architectures if you are going to run stone-age software?” asks Stephen Sykes, Four Js Vice President of Database Products. “You need a modern database to take best advantage of modern hardware, and Genero db from Four Js is the first twenty-first century OLTP database designed for high throughput on these modern machines.”

The webinar will feature special guest Research Vice President, Application Development and Deployment, IDC, Carl Olofson, who will discuss a radically new lock-free architecture that allows databases to deliver dramatically higher throughput on modern multi-core machines fitted with more memory than anyone could imagine when Oracle was being designed. Mr. Olofson will be joined by Stephen Sykes, VP of Database Products at Four Js, who will discuss how this architecture has added a new dimension to Genero db.

The webinar is free and registration is open at the Four Js web site, www.fourjs.com.

About Four J’s Development Tools

Four J’s is a privately held company that develops, markets and sells Genero – a development and deployment environment purpose built for the creation of highly scalable, mission critical, transaction oriented business applications. Genero improves programmer productivity by enabling the rapid and predictable development and deployment of business process logic across a variety of clients (Windows®, Apple® Mac®, Web browser) databases (Microsoft® SQL Server, IBM, Oracle®) and operating systems (Windows XP®/Vista®, Unix®, Linux®). Present on five continents, Four J’s has a prestigious roster of clients: adidas, Antonio Merloni, BBC, British Petroleum (BP), Daewoo Heavy Industries Inc., Deluxe, Fritolay-Pepsico, Hastings Entertainment, the Mexican Govt. Institute of Civil Servant Social Security Services (ISSSTE), the Italian Foreign Office (MAE Italia), Kmart, Office Cleaning Services (OCS), Pace Petroleum, the Public Broadcasting Service of America (PBS), Porto Seguro, Reebok, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Sears, Skechers, the Spanish Air Force and Army, Sprint, Tramontina, the US Naval Safety Center, and Xcel Energy to name but a few. For more information visit www.4js.com.