Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Ittia | Subject: DB-Fuel
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 February 2006

Embedded database crosses platform divide

The second beta release of the Ittia DB-Fuel cross-platform embedded database extends the capabilities of the popular database system for embedded and mobile devices

Fuel now includes support for mobile versions of Windows, including Pocket PC and Windows CE, and features significant speed improvements. Fuel's sleek and compact kernel, excellent performance and compelling features set it aside from its competitors. Mobile and embedded devices have fundamentally different requirements than enterprise servers.

Processing efficiency and memory footprint are of critical importance as excessive overhead will increase the cost and decrease the battery life of an embedded device.

Ittia has built its Fuel database from the ground up to support developers of modern embedded devices.

Fuel can be used in devices with substantially less than 1Mbyte of memory, even while including such features as binary large object support (BLOBs), multiversioning concurrency control (MVCC), robust transaction support with automatic recovery, hot backup capability, and support for database encryption.

Combining a balanced set of database features with an economical business offering gives a compelling reason for embedded developers to select Fuel.

A mobile application developer designing a device built on a mobile Windows platform, said: 'Fuel really helps out our development'.

'By taking care of the data management in a really clever fashion, we can focus our efforts on building and improving the application - and it helps us stay within our hardware requirements'.

Fuel also delivers compelling advantages by being portable between Windows, Linux and other operating systems.

Not only is the syntax for accessing the database identical on all platforms, but so is the on-disk data format, making deployment, backup and data migration a breeze.

'We are very thankful for our beta testers who have offered us significant feedback, and with their support we have been able to greatly improve Fuel's quality'.

'I'm very pleased with the progress of the Fuel beta', said Ittia's President, Sasan Montaseri.

'We invite other Windows developers to join the process'.

'The more organisations that join in the beta, the more closely we can match our database to meet the real-world requirements of developers worldwide'.

• Ittia: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• Electronicstalk Home Page

Search the Pro-Talk network of sites

Put your news on Electronicstalk  |   Advertise  |   Get the free Electronicstalk newsletter
Electronicstalk Home  |   About Electronicstalk  |   Copyright © 2000-2007 Pro-Talk Ltd, UK