'Query-Priority Concurrency' Offers Industry's First Data Warehouse Technology
To Update Data in Real Time Without Impacting Query Performance
LOS GATOS, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB), The Data Warehouse Company(R), today announced the
availability of query-priority concurrency through Red Brick
DecisionScape(SM), Red Brick's comprehensive, integrated environment of
products, services, methodology and partnerships for decision support.
Analytic applications which require real-time data updates concurrently with
high-performance analysis are expected to benefit from this innovative
technology.
Red Brick's query-priority concurrency functionality is designed to allow
data to flow into a data warehouse continuously without affecting the query
response times of business analysts using the system. It makes Red Brick
DecisionScape the ideal environment for decision support systems and analytic
applications that require real-time or continuous feeds of data, such as stock
market, financial or Internet-related data, into a decision support system
throughout the day. Query-priority concurrency significantly reduces down
time for data warehouse data loading.
The result anticipated from these benefits is an immediate performance
boost and return-on-investment in custom decision support solutions and
packaged analytic applications that are designed to track and quickly analyze
changing markets and calculations.
"Red Brick continues to lead the decision support market in innovative
advancements that power the best solutions for our customers," said Phil
Fernandez, senior vice president of Products and Services at Red Brick.
"Query-priority concurrency is unique and far surpasses other data warehouse
databases' abilities to support advanced, real-time analysis. The combination
of query-priority concurrency with our other industry-leading, integrated Red
Brick products and services, provides a rich fabric to customers and partners
with which to design and implement successful, cutting-edge decision support
systems and analytic applications."
Enabling Real-Time Warehouse Updates
Red Brick Warehouse 5.1, Red Brick's flagship relational database
management system designed specifically for data warehousing, now enables
concurrent queries and data updates while maintaining query performance. This
capability is based on a versioning technique that permits data modification
transactions to occur to a different version of the same data while analysts
are querying the data. Versioning offers a much greater degree of flexibility
in updating data than through traditional techniques used by general purpose
RDBMSs for data updates. Red Brick's innovative implementation provides a
consistent view of the data for each query initiated.
Data warehouse administrators will benefit from the ease-of-use of
query-priority concurrency. Once an administrator has implemented
query-priority concurrency by creating a version log and initiating
versioning, no other administrative requirements are necessary. In addition,
the implementation of query-priority concurrency is completely transparent to
the end user, query tool or custom program.
Availability
Query-priority concurrency is available now in Red Brick Warehouse 5.1.
Current Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 customers may obtain query-priority
concurrency through a no-charge upgrade. Red Brick products may be licensed
directly from Red Brick, or through Red Brick's distributors and resellers
worldwide. In addition, HP is a licensed reseller of Red Brick products and
may be contacted for further information.
More information may be obtained through Red Brick's direct sales offices
in the United States and Canada, or by calling 800-777-2585 in the United
States.
About Red Brick
Red Brick Systems, Inc. is a premier provider of data warehousing
solutions. Through Red Brick DecisionScape(SM), a comprehensive, integrated
environment of products, services, methodology and partnerships, Red Brick
helps its customers and partners improve the quality, speed and accuracy of
their business decision-making. Red Brick's leading expertise and innovative,
server-integrated technology deliver scalable decision support solutions for
data warehousing, data marts, OLAP and data mining. Red Brick is based in Los
Gatos, Calif., with 290 employees worldwide and FY97 annual revenues of
approximately $43 million.
Information about Red Brick is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.redbrick.com. News releases and corporate background information may also
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800-758-5804, and enter PIN #105756.
NOTE: Red Brick, the Red Brick logo and The Data Warehouse Company are
registered trademarks and Red Brick DecisionScape is a service mark and a
trademark of Red Brick Systems, Inc. All other trademarks and registered
trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties described from time to time in the Company's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We refer you to the "Risk
Factors" in the most recent Annual Report filed with the SEC on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 1997, and the quarterly report for the quarter
ended March 31, 1998. These documents contain and identify important factors
that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained
herein, including, without limitation: Competition; Sales and Marketing
Repositioning; Dependence on New Products and Rapid Technological Change;
Feasibility of In-Process Technology; Dependence upon Key Personnel; and
Dependence on Continued Growth of the Data Warehouse Market.
SOURCE Red Brick Systems, Inc.
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