DATA-GRID is building the first fundamentally new data management software in 30 years.
Since the 1970's, data base management systems have been dominated by the 'Relational' model.
The first non-relational standard came out in 2004 — not from the DBMS community, but from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
That standard is called 'OWL'. It was designed to capture the semantics of information stored in the Web rather than the syntax of how text and images are laid out on web pages.
Data-GRID has built the first commercial DBMS based on OWL.
The new standard will eventually have much broader influence than its DBMS-only predecessor, SQL. By separating semantics from representation, OWL allows a DBMS to handle text and multi-media information as well as the record structured data that the relational data model was designed to handle. This means that a single information management system could replace the data management, document management and media management systems which sit behind today's major web sites. And in OWL, object identifiers are URLs. In a relational DBMS 'foreign keys' can refer only to other tuples in the same database. In an OWL DBMS an object identifier can refer to another object anywhere in the Web. A little Semantics, mixed with a little Web, goes a long way.
DATA-GRID's DBMS 3.0™ is based on the key standard the underpins Web 3.0, the Semantic Web. But it is designed to support current Web 2.0 applications.
It works with Ruby on Rails and other lightweight Java/AJAX based application server platforms.
Development versions of DBMS 3.0™ for use with Ruby on Rails will be available early next year.
Production releases for mainstream J2EE and .NET application servers will be available mid-year.
Please call us if you are interested in participating in our Beta program. (510) 452-6465.