Some of the threads mention an Enterprise version of ElevateDB!

Couple of questions:

1) Will it support a single database file for all tables?

2) Will there be an AWE version? If so, is the distribution price per developer license or
per installation? Hoping developer even if @ a much higher cost.

Best Regards,

Shane

Shane,

Just to note - all of this is very preliminary, but I will tell you what I
can tell you.

<< 1) Will it support a single database file for all tables? >>

Yes.

<< 2) Will there be an AWE version? >>

Yes, it will be able to address very large amounts of memory.

<< If so, is the distribution price per developer license or per
installation? Hoping developer even if @ a much higher cost. >>

This is the part that hasn't been decided yet.   I'll probably have more
information as we start to get towards the end of development.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim,

Thanks for the answers!

I left off another question: time frame <BG>! Will it be out in 2009?

I am going to start evaluating ElevateDB as it has many features my current clients and
potential clients are asking for!

Best Regards,

Shane

Shane,

<< I left off another question: time frame <BG>! Will it be out in 2009? >>

That's the general idea.  I'm shooting for late summer.

<< I am going to start evaluating ElevateDB as it has many features my
current clients and potential clients are asking for! >>

Fantastic.  If you need any information at all, feel free to ask.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim,

Thanks!

It will be nice to actually be using a database on this side of the ocean for live support
(+ it will make customers happier since most of them are in the US)!

Best Regards,

Shane

Hi,

Ok, I will bite.

Enterprise Version.  Tim can you give use a quick run down on what you envision will
make this 'Enterprise' and the benifits for us.

From my point of view I need speed and stability.

Currently my client's servers run windows 2003 32bit OS and around 4GB of RAM.

Will AWE overly benefit them greatly?

Sell it to me   

>  Will AWE overly benefit them greatly?
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>  Sell it to me   
>

What is AWE?

Dale

Dale:

"Address Windowing Extensions"

Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) is a set of extensions that allows
an application to quickly manipulate physical memory greater than 4GB.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366527(VS.85).aspx

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Regards,
Jan Ferguson [Team Elevate]


Dale Derix wrote:

<<<< Will AWE overly benefit them greatly?

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<<What is AWE?
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<<Dale

Graeme,

<< Enterprise Version.  Tim can you give use a quick run down on what you
envision will make this 'Enterprise' and the benifits for us.

From my point of view I need speed and stability. >>

The core features of the Enterprise version will be the ability to use lots
and lots of memory, long-running transactions (including read-only
transactions like backups) without sacrificing concurrency other than
per-row conflicts, and the ability to withstand failures such as a
power-loss without corruption.  It will be made to encompass the full ACID
properties of a database engine - Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and
Durability.  EDB currently does all of those things except for Durability -
it can still require a repair during a machine failure, although you can now
do a hot backup with the replication and that works great for recovery
purposes.  It will be written for native Win32 compilation, so it will use
pointers and memory management techniques that the current EDB does not use
because of the .NET implementation.

So, in summary, it will definitely provide the two things that you're
looking for.  The way that the server will buffer databases is geared
towards maximum speed and maximum usage of the memory on the host machine
(within memory configuration parameters that you set, of course).

<< Currently my client's servers run windows 2003 32bit OS and around 4GB of
RAM.

Will AWE overly benefit them greatly? >>

Yes.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com