DataDirect Technologies Announces Version 4.0 of its Industry-Leading JDBC Database Drivers
Latest Release of DataDirect Connect® for JDBC™ Includes New Database Version Support and Full JDBC 4.0 Compliance
BEDFORD, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE)
02-Sep-2008
DataDirect Technologies, the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), today announced the availability of its DataDirect Connect® for JDBC™ database drivers version 4.0. The latest release of the JDBC™ drivers includes important new features and developer productivity capabilities with full support for the JDBC 4.0 specification, flexible application failover and new database feature support.
DataDirect Technologies’ data connectivity components provide standards-based data access to all major databases including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix and MySQL®. Software architects at independent software vendors (ISVs) and in corporate IT departments worldwide use the DataDirect Connect for JDBC drivers to build high performance, database-independent applications on a common architecture. DataDirect Connect for JDBC has become the industry standard for fast, reliable and secure data connectivity embedded in more than 120 ISV applications.
DataDirect Connect for JDBC version 4.0 is now JDBC 4.0 compliant and also supports the optional JDBC 4.0 features including support for the SQLXML data type and the enterprise runtime features of JDBC 4.0 including extended diagnostics and caching enhancements. With complete JDBC 4.0 compliancy, DataDirect drivers leverage the latest ease-of-use design features and allow developers to take advantage of new functionality that will lead to superior application performance and reliability.
“Having partnered with Sun Microsystems to develop the original JDBC standard and as a participant on the JDBC Expert Panel since its inception, DataDirect Technologies is a leading expert and pioneer in JDBC,” said John Goodson, vice president and general manager at DataDirect Technologies. “At DataDirect we are constantly pushing the market forward by introducing support for the latest features and database versions. DataDirect Connect for JDBC version 4.0 is no exception. It includes cutting-edge enterprise functionality and runtime features for maximum performance and scalability across all major databases.”
Well established, development-level relationships with all leading database and platform vendors ensures DataDirect Technologies’ products are always feature rich and current with the latest database versions and releases. DataDirect Connect for JDBC version 4.0 supports many of the new features found in IBM DB2 v. 9.5 and Oracle 11g database releases including database compression, transparent data encryption, server side result-set caching and XQuery update expressions.
In addition to new features for improved application capability and developer productivity, DataDirect Connect for JDBC version 4.0 includes application runtime enhancements. Flexible application failover is automatically implemented by the DataDirect Connect for JDBC driver, enabling users to choose the level of failover to be deployed for improved application uptime. This can range from simple connection failover to failover support for select based statement.
“The JDBC 4.0 specification, which DataDirect helped develop, represents an important milestone for the Java database community,” said Ken North, renowned database expert and principal of Ken North Consulting LLC. “Updating the DataDirect Connect for JDBC product to align with JDBC 4.0 ensures that developers have a source for drivers that offer performance, scalability, security, broad connectivity and support for the latest JDBC standard.”
For a detailed list of what’s new in release 4.0 of DataDirect Connect for JDBC, visit the product page at http://www.datadirect.com/products/jdbc/index.ssp.
About DataDirect Technologies
DataDirect Technologies is the software industry’s only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world’s most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect® products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC™ and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS). For more information, visit www.datadirect.com.
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