French-based Four J`s Development Tools is seeking a local partner for its IBM Informix-compatible database management system, the company announced.
Four J`s is a global company represented in SA through its distribution partners iAdapt and NJA.
"We are looking at appointing a specific database partner in SA to provide local support. We think it is key to be able to react locally on something like a database," said Craig Dawson, Four J`s SA sales manager, who was speaking at Futurex this week.
Genero runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris and will support HP-UX next year, said Four J`s COO Bryn Jenkins.
He said the database is built around a concurrency engine that reduces locking by 99% and speeds heavily loaded business applications, such as telco wireless platforms, enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management solutions.
Genero offers a patented lock-free architecture that delivers parallel scaling - while other databases get slower as demand increases (in terms of transactions or requests), Genero gets comparatively faster, said Four J`s regional manager Neil O`Meara.
"Genero comprises six patents in the area of concurrency and locking that deliver linear scaling," he said. "In real-time applications, Genero has shown performance gains of between five and 15 times over its competitors."
"Genero is relevant from a single-user environment to multi-user environments and can consolidate servers, driving cost savings by up to 50%," claimed Jenkins.
"Locking is the key. If you can cut or even remove completely the need to lock, you liberate processing power to do real work."
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