Ingres unveils Ingres database 9.2

REDWOOD CITY, USA: Ingres Corporation, provider of open source database software and support services has announced the availability of Ingres Database 9.2.

Ingres Database 9.2 is flexible, simple, secure, reliable, and scalable to cope with even the most complex, multi-language requirements including business intelligence, content management, data warehousing, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and logistics management.

"With Ingres Database 9.2, we offer our global customers an integrated open source database like no other on the market, in terms of innovation, technology feature-set, and affordability," said Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres.

He added: "The many new capabilities in this release were driven by our customers, partners, and other community members and we benefited from significant community code contributions. This exciting new release delivers reliable, secure, efficient data management in a single integrated product, and at an affordable cost."

Customer Praise for Ingres Database 9.2
In today's world, system downtime can mean the difference between a healthy bottom line and business disaster. Ingres Database 9.2 is engineered to keep your Ingres-based solutions up and available around the clock and is the only open source database that combines the flexibility of open source with the business critical availability and reliability of commercial database management system (DBMS) platforms. In these difficult economic times, some CIOs will lead from the front and innovate, others will hibernate. Ingres Database 9.2 provides customers with the ability to drive innovation and realize significant cost savings.

Partner Support for Ingres Database 9.2
Ingres partners Alfresco and Jaspersoft rely on Ingres Database 9.2 as the platform for content management and business intelligence solutions. Jaspersoft and Ingres have successfully collaborated on the Ingres IceBreaker BI appliance, which has set the foundation for new product innovation and continued momentum in the market. Ingres leverages the Alfresco product line to deliver complete content management solutions to enterprise customers with all of the cost and flexibility benefits that an open source solution provides.

"Ingres provides a robust, highly available solution for our enterprise customers," said John Newton, CTO and chairman, Alfresco Software. "They understand the importance of providing real time backup and point in time restore to ensure our customer's data is always available."

"Ingres delivers an enterprise-ready platform for our business intelligence customers," said Jose Morales, vice president of business development, Jaspersoft. "Jaspersoft is working closely with Ingres to optimize our products for version 9.2, which together will deliver an optimal solution for mission-critical business intelligence applications."

Key Features in Ingres Database 9.2
In addition to delivering on reliability and affordability, Ingres Database 9.2 reduces the time, complexity, and database administrator (DBA) requirements by simplifying and automating many tasks traditionally associated with maintaining a business-class database. Upgrades from previous releases are a simple, highly automated task with no requirement to reload data. In addition, the release focuses on improved application development, with enhanced availability and supportability. Key features include:

Internationalized Applications
Today, more and more organizations expand globally. It has therefore become even more important that business applications support all languages involved in the organization's business. Ingres Database 9.2 provides unparalleled multi-language support with expanded Unicode features.

Improved Availability
Ingres customers have long delivered high availability for their business critical applications by leveraging its proven high availability features and robust operational capabilities. Business systems have to be up 24 x 7 to serve customers and employees in all time zones. With Ingres Database 9.2, new features focus on increasing the availability of the server, such as enhancements to point-in-time restore and online backup.

Improved Application Development
Ingres continues to support the latest standards including Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC), open database connectivity (ODBC), and .NET Data Provider. Ingres has always been a leader in application development using Eclipse with its data tools plug-in. Now, Ingres Database 9.2 simplifies the development of web-based Java applications and continues to support a wide range of development platforms including PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C++ and .Net.

Easier to Use, Less Expensive to Support
Shrinking IT budgets translate to fewer resources to support more systems. Ingres Database 9.2 introduces features to reduce the amount of time needed to keep your systems running smoothly.

Click here to download Ingres Database 9.2.