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Ingres 2006 Release 2

Business Open Source Database

Open source database solutions that provide enterprise-level functionality, services and support are revolutionizing today's marketplace. Companies no longer need to pay excessive licensing fees for the right to use a highly scalable, highly available, and high-performance database platform. Open source allows companies to deploy flexible, less complex solutions that are not bloated with excess functionality allowing database engineers and administrators to be more productive and able to focus on more mission-critical projects. An open source platform gives enterprise customers and developers the freedom to choose the right database solution for their specific business need.

And now, with the introduction of Ingres 2006, enterprise customers can get this level of functionality and performance on an open source platform with world-class support and services. By leveraging both the affordability and flexibility of open source and the functionality and support of enterprise solutions, Ingres 2006 provides a customizable open source database solution that enterprises can trust with mission-critical data and business applications.

Ingres 2006 Platform Introduces New User Interface

Ingres 2006 release 2 is an update focused on providing a robust, easy to use, easy to install release for new and existing customers while adding a number of key features to further expand development support for Ingres.

Increased focus on Ease of Use, Supportability

  • Simplified Install Interface
  • Enhanced VDBA Usability Interface
  • Ability to backup data online or offline and customize recovery process
  • IPV6 Support
  • Built-in redundancy allows workload to be spread across multiple nodes in a cluster with
  • Automatic fail-over
  • Product demos

Easier implementation process

  • Only one file to download
  • Five-minute installation process
  • Simplified install interface

Increased focus on Application Development Support

  • Full JDBC XA Support
  • Unicode support
  • ANSI Date/ Time support
  • ADA support
  • Enhanced / Updated connectivity tools and driver
  • OpenAPI
  • OpenROAD
  • JBoss Support

The Fastest Query Optimization in Open Source

  • Parallel Query Support allows complex queries to be optimized and executed in parallel

Improved Performance and Scalability

  • Key Range Table Partitioning enables parallel I/O operations across partitions
  • High Availability Cluster Support for Linux and VMS

Better Web Integration

  • Ingres 2006 provides support for all of the latest web application development technologies as well as supporting traditional standards based application development and deployment technologies

More opportunity to take advantage of the power and flexibility of the Ingres database solution

  • World-class support from knowledgeable Ingres experts
  • Dedicated consultants available to provide premium services
  • Catalogue of training and educational courses

These new technology features, coupled with Ingres world-class services and support, provide customers with the ability to deploy a reliable and powerful open source database solution to protect their mission critical data. The solution is easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use and easy-to-manage, giving enterprise customers a solid low-cost database solution.

Platform Support

  • Linux (X86, X86-64 & Itanium)
  • Microsoft Windows (X86 )
  • Sun Solaris (SPARC & X86-64)
  • IBM AIX
  • HP-UX (PArisc & Itanium)
  • HP OpenVMS (Alpha)

For more information about Ingres 2006 release 2 or other Ingres products, please contact the products team.

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