Paradigma Software announces the immediate availability of Valentina Server 2 ultra-fast database server.
Paradigma Software, Inc, providers of groundbreaking business and developer solutions, announce the availability of the first products in the Valentina 2 product line. Valentina 2 is the result of three years of improvements upon the incredibly fast and robust database technology underlying many developer solutions for Macintosh and Windows.
The groundbreaking improvements to the Valentina core technology include:
- New Abstraction Links. Foreign Keys, fast Valentina ObjectPtrs and Valentina Binary links for 1:1, 1:M and M:M links.
- New Speed Improvements. Valentina 2 Cache, new internal file system and RAM-based options dramatically increase speed over the already fast Valentina 1.x technology.
- Unicode. Support for the original 170 encodings plus UTF-8 and UTF-16 native databases, leveraging IBM’s superior Unicode framework.
- Valentina XML. Import and export both data and schema.
- Valentina SQL. SQL’92 compliance as well as native API calls in all products.
- Simultaneous Data Exchange. Connect to data stored on read-only media such as CDROMS, Valentina-based servers on intranets or the Internet, local databases and more, from a single developer solution on either Windows or Macintosh. Linux solutions are under development.
- Transparent File Format. Use the same database files on Windows and MacOS X clients and servers.
Others include new reference integrity, record level locks and 448-bit encryption.
The new, first Valentina 2 products include:
- Valentina 2 Office Server. Office Server is a robust, business ready database server for Windows and MacOS X. Office Server includes plugins for interfacing with most popular development tools on Windows and MacOS, such as REAL Software’s REALbasic, Runtime Revolution, Visual Studio, Delphi and more. Versions support from five to unlimited numbers of users, with pricing starting at $300 for a five connection office. Office Server is extendable and has no IP address limitations or “user CALs” pricing.
- Valentina Developer Network. VDN is a maintenance based, premier software service that allows developers access to Valentina 2 Embedded Server, for creation of true client-server solutions. VDN members can distribute database server applications royalty free. It also includes access to a private support forum, reseller pricing on Office Server, developer versions of Office Server and more. VDN pricing starts at $599. Any licensee of a Valentina 1.1 SDK product can get basic membership for $100 off the regular price, with two years of free upgrade maintenance.
Valentina Application Developer Kits for REAL Software’s REALbasic and Macromedia Director begin at $199, $299 for both MacOS and Windows. Anyone who purchased a Valentina 1.x SDK for REALbasic or Director after September 24, 2004 qualifies for a free upgrade.
Valentina 2 for REALbasic now supports both fast class access as well as RBDB API. Valentina 2 for REALbasic is one of the few database tools that support reading from read only media such as CDROMs.
Valentina 2 for Macromedia Director now is digitally signed and Shockwave safe and supports direct loading of media without relying on Director calls.