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Press Release
SOURCE: FirstSQL, Inc.
FirstSQL Adds Support for Intel Itanium 64-bit Computing Platform For FirstSQL/J
EL CERRITO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2002--FirstSQL®, Inc., a developer of advanced high performance 100% Java Object-relational SQL92 database technology announced support today for Intel® Itanium(TM) 64-bit computing platform.
The advantages of the Intel Itanium architecture for Java-based applications include accelerated performance and significantly larger physical memory addressability.
FirstSQL/J(TM) Professional and Enterprise Server Edition used IBM's 1.3.0 JVM for Windows XP and the TowerJ(TM) Java Virtual Machine on RedHat® Linux 64-bit. FirstSQL plans to support other IA-64 JVMs optimized for the Itanium processor as they become available.
The benefits Intel Itanium provides to database servers written in 100% Java not only raises the performance bar, it significantly broadens the application areas where FirstSQL/J Enterprise Server can excel.
In addition to a large number of registers, IA-64 hardware techniques such as prediction, parallelism, prefetch, and data speculation can provide significantly faster execution and optimization of Java database applications. Optimized to take advantage of high-performance capabilities, the IA-64 machine is a perfect platform for FirstSQL/J Enterprise Server computing.
FirstSQL/J provides ANSI SQL92 Intermediate Level compliance along with extensions and full object capabilities in the database using Java Classes. Java capabilities enhance the power of SQL. Object extensions allow Java methods to be called anywhere in SQL commands, for example, SELECT List, WHERE Clause, SET Clause, etc.
FirstSQL/J supports a rich set of SQL data types plus the ability to store Java objects in database columns. Java database objects offer application developers flexibility by opening infinite possibilities for storage of information.
Java methods use JDBC classes for database access. Clients using JDBC can retrieve and send database objects and they can then execute the retrieved objects in the client environment, in the client JVM. The JDBC Type 4 driver enables database developers to build powerful and portable directory-enabled and EJB applications using the standard Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI).
FirstSQL/J can be developed and deployed on any device, embedded system, or server computing platform that supports a 1.1 or greater J2ME, J2SE, or J2EE compatible JVM. The full function database engine by itself is provided in a modular 600k jar file that can be further reduced in size by removing functionality.
The full system is available at www.firstsql.com/download.shtml.
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Contact:
FirstSQL, Inc.
David Morse, 425/828-4552
Cel: 425/503-1382
www.firstsql.com
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