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Working with the Leading Databases

Base One is integrated with commercial database environments

  • Support for the major database standards
    The Base One Foundation Component Library (BFC) operates through ODBC drivers for Microsoft SQL Server and Access, Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, and MySQL. (On the other hand, B1Framework operates through ADO.NET data providers.) Databases can reside on Windows, Unix/Linux, and IBM midrange (iSeries) and mainframe servers.
     
  • Integration into Windows development and runtime environments
    Base One's tools are integrated with the premier Microsoft Windows development environments.With integrated development under Visual Studio .NET, BFC applications run on Microsoft Windows PCs and servers. Base One supports traditional, client-server and multi-tier Windows applications, as well as both web browser-based "thin client" and Rich Client Internet applications. Rich Client avoids the need for browsers altogether by using Windows' built-in TCP/IP communications functions, allowing for custom encryption as an added security measure. Through XML and web services, Base One can exchange data with J2EE, legacy, and hand-held database applications. The architecture is also well adapted to other types of loosely coupled systems, such as database-driven web sites in combination with Rich Client applications to perform administrative tasks, web site operations, and distributed computing for high-speed, bulk data processing.
     
  • Adding a layer of protection and portability
    BFC wraps the underlying database functions in an easy-to-learn interface, accessible through .NET, COM, and MFC, so Windows and web database applications can be developed quickly using Visual C++, C#, Visual Basic, VB.NET, ASP, and ASP.NET. An additional layer of protection comes from Base One's integral transaction processing and security mechanisms, which tie into and extend existing database and network authentication and reliability features. Using a single, common API (Application Program Interface), you can create applications that work against interchangeable back-end databases, whether on a local network or in a heterogeneous, distributed system across the Internet.

Base One extends and enhances native DBMS capabilities

  • DBMS-independent extensions through Base One's active Data Dictionary
    A sample screen from Base One's Data DictionaryThe Data Dictionary, an integral component used throughout BFC, supports a number of significant extensions to the native capabilities of commercial database systems. Base One adds such features as application-level security, enhanced data validation, referential relationships, and support for advanced data types (Number Class and Attached Objects), all with a uniform, database-independent interface. The Data Dictionary also enables discovery and automatic generation of database layouts, indexes, DBMS security settings, and application-specific performance optimizations.
     
  • Powerful administrative tools that work both locally and remotely
    Even a non-programmer can use the Base One Command Processor, capable of running complex scripts including SQL and DOS commands, plus commands for easily performing such tasks as automated database creation or running pre-defined jobs. With customizable facilities for batch processing (job submission, scheduling, monitoring, and control), as well as security and user administration, almost any aspect of back-office database support can be handled remotely.

Base One makes it easier to build enterprise database applications

  • Easy to learn and use
    Aided by sample projects and integrated wizards, the BFC interface is easy to learn, because operations for data storage and retrieval are expressed the same way, whether programmed in .NET, COM, or MFC environments, or through command scripts. Base One makes life easier by freeing programmers and database administrators from concern about tedious details that make all the difference between a prototype and a robust, high performance, production system. This makes it possible to develop and maintain large-scale interactive or batch applications with the same tools and skill level required for small database projects.
     
  • Built for speed and reliability, without added complexity
    Base One's patented Rich Client architecture cuts network traffic and reduces load on the database server, while providing both network and database transparency to the application.BFC's core Database Library incorporates a highly efficient mode of automated transaction processing and rigorous error handling, to assure proper synchronization of multi-user access and clean recovery from failures. Further speedups are achieved through intelligent client-side caching of data and metadata, plus bulk import, export, and data manipulation operations, optimized for each back-end DBMS, and designed to minimize locking out concurrent database activity. On top of this solid foundation, Base One's Rich Client architecture makes maximum use of the client computer's local storage and processing capabilities, minimizing network traffic and reducing the load on database servers. The result is that applications can scale to larger size and support more users, while maintaining rapid response time.

    Building still further upon the Rich Client model, Base One's unique approach to grid computing offers superior performance, flexibility, and fault-tolerance in the largest distributed database applications. Best of all, application development is easy, because the features essential to achieving speed and dependability in large, multi-user systems are already built into Base One.


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