continue from page 1  Empress Manages Megabytes        "Most of our data are large datasets of 10 MB - 100 MB in size."     MSU CAST also looked into Oracle while researching possible databases for NEONS.  However, Abbott concluded, "In our applications, it doesn't handle big-bulk data as well."        Utilizing Empress as an application development software component of NEONS, MSU CAST aided the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office  in making MEL the vital Internet resource site that it is today.  MEL has been able to provide one integrated site where researchers can locate environmental data encompassing anything from gridded (matrix) numerical model outputs to complex satellite images.       Moreover, MEL gives Empress an opportunity to do one of the things it does best: handle a variety of data types with ease and speed.     continue from page 1  Universal Data Solution        For select platforms, the C++ Host Language Interface provides the calling of mr and mx routines from C++ programs, and the compiling and linking of C++ programs.        Version 8 includes a TIMESERIES indexing method.  The index provides a means to minimize the risk of index file overflow and reduce space consumed by data.  It is designed to more efficiently handle data in which the distribution of key values changes dramatically over a period of time as well as cyclic data with a large range.      Version 8.10 data is compatible with Empress RDBMS V6.10 data.   V6.10 databases simply need to be upgraded, and applications must be recompiled and re-linked.      For more information about Version 8, please contact an account representative.  Customers under maintenance are eligible to upgrade free of charge.

Advances in Internet Technology     Empress intranet document powered by Empress Hypermedia Version 3.00    Empress is committed to keeping pace with the rapidly changing technological advancements of  the Internet in order to continue to provide superior data handling products.  Empress HypermediaTM Version 3.00 is the newest product in the Hypermedia series, designed to interface the Empress RDBMS with the latest Internet technologies.       Empress Hypermedia V3.00 features enhancements to script language interfaces for  Perl and Tcl/Tk.  The interfaces provide for full client-server network architecture via the Empress ODBC Interface, simultaneous connections to multiple databases, and increased efficiency with the ability to reuse SQL statements.  Other enhancements include improved binary data handling features and the use of an unlimited number of cursors for thorough tracking of retrieved records.  The Perl interface also allows you to embed Perl scripts directly into HTML files.      Additional new capabilities of Empress Hypermedia V3.00 are:  the ability to directly embed SQL state-ments within other SQL statements in an HTML template, easy database connections through specification of connection information in an HTML tag, and a clean method of information management by keeping error log files separate from the HTTP system.      Empress Hypermedia V3.00 is fully compatible with Empress Hypermedia V2.10.

 

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