Solutions for Corporations – Data Connectivity

Improve Application Performance, Scalability, and Reliability at Runtime

Database drivers are available for free from database vendors and open source projects. So why do companies like Subaru, Bekins, and Progress Energy invest in data access components from DataDirect?

Companies like these know that the data connectivity middleware they use for enterprise deployments of critical business systems can have dramatic effects on reliability, performance, scalability, and ultimately the success of their business.

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. And open source drivers lack quality, performance, and technical support, while incurring the risk of legal liability.

Performance and Scalability

One of the biggest, but often overlooked, impediments to application performance and scalability is the bottleneck caused by inferior data connectivity.

DataDirect customers find that our connectivity components dramatically improve application performance because they do not require the use of database client libraries. In addition, DataDirect invests a considerable proportion of its R&D budget on optimizing performance, especially for applications that are read intensive.

Our products also come with a number of performance tuning options that allow you to fine-tune your environment to increase performance and decrease network traffic. Multi-threaded scalability tests ensure DataDirect products make the most efficient use of network traffic, disk I/O, and memory. 

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

Data connectivity bugs can be as detrimental to application reliability as any other tier of the application infrastructure. Database vendors invest the majority of their testing and QA efforts on their database engine. Data connectivity 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. It's that simple.

To learn more about the risks associated with open source drivers, read Why Open Source Database Drivers Are Not Viable.

To learn more about the ROI of using DataDirect for your critical business systems, read Nucleus Research’s ROI Evaluation Report of DataDirect's Data Connectivity Products.

To speak with an expert to explore your data connectivity options, please call 1-800-876-3101 or complete a Request For Information form and an account executive will contact you.