Darmstadt, Germany, 10 Nov 2006
Software AG today announced that its Adabas transactional database software has reached a new performance milestone in joint testing with IBM.
Adabas 2006, running along with IBM's recently introduced z/OS v1.8 operating system on the company's new System z9 Enterprise Class mainframe, attained transaction speeds of approximately 320 000 per second - a record speed for Adabas on a commercial mainframe system.
During the trials, which took place at IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York test centre, Adabas 2006's enhanced level of 64-bit virtual memory was used in combination with z/OS V1.8's ability to support more than 128GB of real memory in a single image on IBM System z (z990 and z9 EC) processors. During the testing Adabas 2006 ran on 32 parallel processors.
"We are pleased with the support and continued investment in the System z platform by partners like Software AG," said Randy Daniel, director, System z Marketing Execution, IBM Systems & Technology Group.
"The impressive results of these recent joint tests with Software AG not only demonstrate the strength of our system design, but also emphasises that our approach to transactional data management remains unrivalled throughout the industry."
"This achievement demonstrates that Software AG is fully committed to the continued improvement of Adabas," said Philip Howard, Research Director, Bloor Research.
"Such performance should convince users that no matter how much their volume demand increases - or their processing resources are taken up by other, more CPU intensive, products - Adabas is likely to have more than enough headroom to continue performing effectively."
"As these remarkable joint test results demonstrate, Software AG continues to optimise our Adabas 2006 family of products to keep pace with growing enterprise requirements alongside the industry-leading hardware and operating system platforms of IBM - to the ongoing benefit of our mutual customers," said Joe Gentry, vice-president of Enterprise Transaction Systems for Software AG.
Additional features
In addition to its unprecedented transactional performance, Adabas 2006 now supports multimedia objects up to 2GB in size. This new capability means that large unstructured files (such as photographs, design files, fingerprint files, spreadsheets, XML and HTML documents, and other document types) can be stored alongside structured data files inside Adabas 2006. Being able to store structured and unstructured files in the same location eliminates the need for data synchronisation, improves data accuracy and reduces costs associated with system integration.
Another significant upgrade to Adabas 2006 is the addition of support for logical records exceeding 32KB (called spanned records), which eliminates virtually all practical limits on record size. This enhancement prevents down-time when storage limits are reached for extremely large volumes of data, moving Adabas even closer to (theoretical) 24 x7 x 365 operational uptime.
Product availability
Software AG's Adabas 2006 is shipping now. For more information about Adabas 2006, visit http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/products/adabas/default.asp.
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