TigerLogic UK Users Meeting 2010

Written by: Elkie Holland, Prospectus 

Date published: 3 February 2010

 

The event was billed as “TigerLogic UK Users Meeting 2010” and was held by Tiger Logic at a hotel in Buckinghamshire.

  

 

The UK Tiger Logic staff were out in full including Bob Whiting and Mark Morley.  They were joined by John Bramley (VP, Operations) and Robert Burke (Director, Customer Support) both representing the US. 

 

 

The aim of this event appeared to be three-fold:

 

1	To demonstrate and showcase the new innovations and major enhancements to their MultiValue technology. – D3 9.0, mvBase 3.0 and OpenDB.
2	Introduce TigerLogic’s XDMS technology.
3	To get closer and listen to their user community.

 

New features - D3 9.0, mvBase 3.0 and OpenDB

TigerLogic was proud to unveil new features in D3 9.0, mvBase 3.0 and OpenDB.  They felt these had been designed to make applications and data more useful and thereby enriching the value of business solutions.  Each new feature was explained and demonstrated where possible.

 

There was a review of deploying D3 9.0 in a virtual environment.  The major new features unveiled included:

 

è	The long awaited Hot Backup feature for D3 Windows 9.0 which was well received by a wide number of attendees.
è	Dashboard with graphical representation of data was demonstrated to the sound of brains whirling and you could practically hear the “ooh’s and aah’s”.
è	The new .Net API and Java API for multi-valued data were demonstrated including a detailed drill-down into the classes and methods of each API.   The .Net API and Java API will be included in D3 9.0 and mvBase 3.0.
è	The new graphical Administration Console for D3 which is built upon the new .NET API was shown too.
è	The latest version of OpenDB 3.2 which supports access to relational data as if it is multi-value data was show as well as how to retrieve and update data from relational tables utilising D3 OSFI technology.  The latest enhancements have improved the performance.
è	The new Tier pricing was also introduced.

 

 

Introduction to XDMS

XDMS,  another product within the TigerLogic portfolio was introduced and demonstrated. This is a new way to easily integrate multi-value data with other data sources including JDBC, JMS, Web Services, File System Data and Web content. 

 

MultiValue data was exposed and processed as XML enabling integration of multivalue data with other data sources including JDBC, JMS, Web Services, File System Data and Web Content.    They demonstrated how to build a data cache for multi-value data with time-to-live policies.  Caching can be used to provide a multi-value data cache or a data integration cache, which can be used to improve overall performance.

 

It was also shown how to directly link a Pick Basic Subroutine to a Web service and easily deploy it.  The Tigerlogic XDMS XQuery engine was also demonstrated to retrieve multi-value data and return if via a Web service.

 

 

Website competition

A Competition was held for a website utilising D3 technology and the winner was announced.  The winner was Brakes International.   www.brakesint.co.uk

 

 

 

Throughout the day the TigerLogic staff were actively listening for feedback from the attendees.  Attendees included people from software houses and end users and were a cross between management and technical.  Feedback and questions was welcomed in sessions and on a 1-to-1 basis.

 

The things which seemed to generate the most excitement were:

 

«	HotBackup
«	.Net and Java API
«	The GUI Dashboard which looks very promising and it was heard it would help “sell” applications !

 

 

From the day, it would definitely appear that TigerLogic do wish to have a closer relationship with its community and that more enhancements are on their way too.

 

If you have questions, feedback or suggestions for enhancements then Mark Morley, UK Customer Service Manager, would love to hear from you.  He can be contacted on:

 

 

Tel:              +44 (0) 1753 891 800

Email:           mark.morley@tigerlogic.com