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Solutions for ISVs - Database Connectivity
Improve Software Reliability, Performance, Scalability, and Functionality
Database vendors include data access components with a database. So why do more than half of the largest software companies in the world turn to DataDirect for database drivers?
Because they have discovered that the data connectivity middleware they use can have dramatic effects on software reliability, performance, scalability, functionality, and ultimately their customers' experience with their product.
Components offered by database vendors and open source communities are inherently inferior data connectivity solutions. Database vendor components give the requisite level of functionality and performance necessary to work with a specific version of a database.
Ultimately, database vendors are in business to develop and market database engines, not data connectivity middleware. They have no incentive to improve the quality and performance of drivers because they need to spend the majority of their testing and QA efforts on their database engines.
Performance and Scalability
One of the biggest, but often overlooked, impediments to application performance and scalability is the bottleneck caused by inferior data connectivity.
Software companies such as Camstar chose DataDirect because our ODBC drivers scale to support their customer needs - like processing speeds of up to 110,000 transactions per second. And since switching to DataDirect, Camstar no longer experiences memory leaks or other critical driver failures.
Software companies also find that DataDirect connectivity components offer a superior technology because they do not require the use of database client libraries. This has proven to dramatically improve application performance. In addition, DataDirect invests a considerable amount of development effort optimizing performance. You can bet the database vendors are not spending their money on optimizing their drivers when it would take resources away from core database development and testing.
Reliability
Sentillion, a leading provider of identity and access management solutions for the healthcare industry, kept experiencing data connectivity problems when using the JDBC drivers provided with their customers' databases. When Sentillion decided to bundle JDBC drivers from DataDirect with its Vergence Privacy Auditor product, the data connectivity worked consistently, requiring almost no support.
Data connectivity bugs can be as detrimental to application reliability as any other tier of the application infrastructure. Database vendor components are usually only tested for specific functionality within a specific database version. To ensure reliability, DataDirect components are tested under production conditions, in all kinds of application scenarios, with the industry's leading test suites. DataDirect drivers are known for their quality. They work. You can depend on them. It's that simple.
Functionality
eQuorum wasn't willing to bet the success of its ImageSite product on an open source JDBC driver that doesn't support most databases or provide advanced functionality. In choosing DataDirect's JDBC driver, eQuorum was able to take advantage of DataDirect's advanced feature support such as distributed transactions and SQL Leveling, which eases the pain of having to support multiple relational databases.
If you want to take advantage of the latest database functionality and the features in the latest data connectivity specifications, the drivers you embed must support them. The free driver you use from the database vendor will only work for a specific database version and may not support the new version of the standard, such as ODBC, JDBC or ADO.NET.
With DataDirect drivers, you're ensured of supporting all the latest database features and the most current version of the data access API.
The Bottom Line is Customer Satisfaction
In the end, you'll know if your customer is satisfied because you won't hear any noise about data connectivity. That's the beauty of DataDirect - quietly doing its job and making your product as fast, reliable, and as feature-rich as it can be.
To speak with an expert about our products and licensing options call 1-800-876-3101 or submit a Request for Information form and an account executive will contact you.
