Over the past two years we have recognized that more and more enterprise requirements are being requested from longtime customers and new customers alike. As the embedded database market continues to grow, software vendors are leveraging a combination of technology and partnerships to meet the enterprise requirements. These requirements span from scalability, distributed databases, replication, load balancing, support for multi-core technology and topping it all off is the ease of use requirement. Furthermore these requirements are in addition to the already well established requirements of today's embedded database including: fast performance; predictability; reliability; and all within a compact footprint.
Raima has over the past three years recognized these developments in the embedded database market and have included many these new requirements into our current products and added many to our future products' roadmaps. Some requirements like, multi-core processor support, have been supported within our RDM Server product for well over a decade. RDM Server, our broadly deployed client server embedded database will continue to meet our customer needs as they grow and change.
Very soon we will be announcing the upcoming release of a brand new version of RDM Embedded (RDMe) version 10. The anticipated release of RDM Embedded 10 is currently planned for the second quarter of this year. RDM Embedded 10 will support multi-core, distributed databases, hot online backup, 2 phase commit and will include many enhancements to existing RDM Embedded functionality. Feedback from current RDM Embedded users has been very positive and in fact several of them have already pre-ordered their upgrade to RDM Embedded 10.
Raima will continue to invest in our embedded database products in order to meet the market and our customer's requirements. I encourage all of you to be active and participate in helping meet these requirements by telling us what you expect to see in RDM products moving forward. In addition please don't hesitate to tell us what we are not doing well as this is the only way we can continue to improve.
Best Regards, Steinar
steinar.sande@raima.com
The Claremont Report on Database Research highlights that the industry of data analysis is growing rapidly. Data analysts are widening their reach within companies to obtain information that will help identify problems and inefficiencies in the organization in order to reduce costs or increase decision making intelligence. Recent discussions with many prospects, customers and attendees at trade shows validate that the requirement to access raw data as quickly as possible is not industry specific.
While the capabilities of hardware in devices deployed in various systems for
industrial automation, aerospace and defense and telecommunications has improved
dramatically, the devices are still not capable of providing the necessary
predictable performance when tasked with performing ad-hoc queries from a
curious data analyst.
The RAIMA dataFlow engine allows that precious data to be moved quickly and
efficiently to an aggregation point that is not constrained by the real-time
performance requirements of the embedded device. The design provides access to
the raw data with minimal impact on production performance.
If your organization is requiring analysis of raw data in peripheral devices closer to real-time, the RAIMA DataFlow capabilities of RDM Embedded 9.1 can provide that access now. Contact your sales representative today for a demonstration.
Long Time Raima Employee Pam Marsh RetiresAfter 23 years Pam Marsh a longtime member of the RAIMA team has decided to retire. She has been a valuable member of the team working tirelessly over the years to help Raima's contract department run smoothly and efficiently. Many of you have probably had an interaction or two over the years with her relating to quarterly reports, payments, or contracts. Her duties are now being handled by Judith Lau who has worked with Pam in the contracts group for several years. We wish Pam the best of luck in her retirement! Her last day was January 15th, 2010.
Raima presented new dataFlow technology at RTECC 2010 Santa Clara
Raima exhibited at this year's RTECC 2010 Santa Clara on January 26th. In addition to exhibiting Raima representatives Scott Meder and John Pai presented their unique RDMe dataFlow engine at one of the breakout sessions. This unique dataflow engine enables real-time movement of information from the smallest devices up to the largest enterprise databases.
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Mitsubishi selects Raima Database Manager as the embedded database for their e-F@ctory Alliance partnership ecosystem
Raima is a new member of the Mitsubishi Electric e-F@ctory Alliance partnership ecosystem providing embedded database technology to run on the iQ Platform's C Controller CPU. Raima's RDM Embedded technology provides an industrial grade database platform that allows data to be stored, managed, and accessed directly within the controller rather than via a higher-level PC database, offering huge potential for increased performance and easier system integration.
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Raima signs new Turkish embedded database distributor
Leading embedded database vendor Raima appoints G3Tek as their distributor serving the rapidly growing Turkish embedded systems market.
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Raima Expands Their Reseller Network in Asia
Raima has signed on FTD Solution as their newest reseller. FTD located in Singapore will market the Raima product line within Asia expanding Raima's worldwide presences.
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Raima and Auriga forge a new strategic partnership
Raima, developers of the popular embedded database managers RDM Embedded and RDM Server have partnered with Auriga, Russia's leading outsourcing R&D service providers. This new partnership opens up many opportunities and provides additional benefits for customers of both companies.
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Raima Announces the Release of RDM Server 8.3
Raima released RDM Server 8.3 with enhanced SQL support. RDM Server's already comprehensive SQL capabilities are extended with additional support for SQL Triggers and UNIONS as defined in the SQL92 standards.
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Patch Releases
| Product | Version | Patch | Release Date |
| RDM Server | 8.0 | P | 11/20/2009 |
| RDM Server | 8.1 | N | 12/11/2009 |
| RDM Server | 8.2 | B | 12/03/2009 |
| RDM Server | 8.3 | A | 12/16/2009 |
| RDM Embedded | 9.1 | E | 12/02/2009 |
The above patches are the latest patch releases in the last 3 months. If more than one patch was released for a version of the product, only the latest version is referenced above.
CRITICAL UPDATE - A critical problem has been uncovered with the RDM Server recovery process for versions 8.0 and newer. The critical defect may cause data corruption or a server crash if the server attempts to recover a transaction containing a BLOB_ID or a DB_ADDR field. The schedule for patches releases containing the needed fix is:
| RDM Server Version | Patch | Issue # | Est. Release Date |
| 8.0 | Q | 1944 | 02/05/2010 |
| 8.1 | O | 1945 | 02/01/2010 |
| 8.2 | C | 1946 | 03/01/2010 |
| 8.3 | C | 1947 | 02/02/2010 |
If your database schema does not contain BLOBs or DB_ADDR fields, your version of the software is not affected by this defect.
Extend SSD Lifetime Using the Network Database Model
By John Pai, Raima Presales Engineer, RTC Magazine October 2009
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Maximizing Resources in Data Acquisition Systems with a Network Data Model
By John Pai, Raima Presales Engineer, RTC Magazine July 2009
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Raima Embedded Database Training Schedule
Learn the skills to develop with the most reliable and flexible embedded database solutions. Raima's training classes are held in the Seattle center of excellence and provide the unique ability to meet and speak with the developers of the Raima databases. This is in addition to receiving the best training in how to utilize the power of the Raima embedded databases. Each training day is tailored to the attendees' database expertise and an emphasis is placed on the topics that best match the groups experience level.
Click on the dates below to find out more and register for a training class. Space is limited so make sure you sign up soon to ensure your spot in the class.
| RDM Embedded | RDM Server | |
| March 3rd - 6th, 2010 | April 5th - 8th, 2010 | |
| September 6th - 9th, 2010 | October 4th - 7th, 2010 |
Embedded World 2010
Come visit us at Embedded World 2010 in booth 11-336. This year's event will be held at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg in Nuremberg Germany March 2nd through the 4th. We will be highlighting our upcoming release of RDM Embedded 10.0, recently released RDM Server 8.3, and hosting a live demonstration of RDM Embedded to RDM Server data replication. If you would like to schedule a one-on-one meeting with us while we are at the show please contact Luca.
Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley 2010
Come visit us at Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley 2010. This year's event will be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA April 26nd - April 29th. We will be highlighting our upcoming release of RDM Embedded 10.0 and RDM Server 8.3, and hosting a live demonstration of Embedded to Server data replication. If you would like to schedule a one-on-one meeting with us while we are at the show please contact Scott.
The Embedded Masterclass 2010
Come visit us at The Embedded Masterclass 2010, May 6th Cambridge UK & May 11th Bristol UK. If you would like to schedule a meeting with us please contact: Luca.
Embedded Systems Conference Boston
Please visit Raima at this years Embedded Systems Conference Boston. We'll be at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA September 20th - September 23rd. We will be highlighting our upcoming release of RDM Embedded 10.1 and RDM Server 8.3, and hosting a live demonstration of Embedded to Server data replication. If you would like to schedule a one-on-one meeting with us While we are at the show please contact Nelson Taggart.
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Worldwide
Raima 2101 Fourth Avenue Suite 240 Seattle, WA 98121 Telephone: +1 206 748 5300 Fax: +1 206 748 5200 E-mail: sales@raima.com |
Europe
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