New Version of Relational Database For Data Warehousing Offers Features
Designed To Maximize Productivity, Reduce Complexities and Cut Costs
LOS GATOS, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB), The Data Warehouse Company(R), today announced the immediate
availability of Red Brick Warehouse version 5.1 on UNIX and NT platforms.
Red Brick Warehouse is the industry's leading relational database
management system designed from the ground up for data warehousing. Version
5.1 offers new features designed to maximize productivity, reduce overall cost
of ownership and minimize complexities for data warehouse administrators and
users. New options available in conjunction with Red Brick Warehouse 5.1
include Red Brick Vista(TM), a ground-breaking, server-integrated solution for
the computation and management of aggregates; and SQL-BackTrack(TM) for Red
Brick Warehouse, a backup and recovery system designed specifically for Red
Brick.
"Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 continues our tradition of introducing innovative
technology to data warehousing and extends our lead ahead of other databases
in this market," said Chris Erickson, president and CEO of Red Brick Systems.
"In addition, we believe our customers will directly benefit from this version
in terms of reduced time, cost and resources to manage their data warehouse.
These administrative advances are designed to improve their ability to manage
large-scale warehouses, in terms of both data and users."
Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 Features
Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 is designed to help data warehouse administrators
improve data warehouse tuning, maximize productivity through features such as
aggregate management and an administrator GUI interface, and reduce data
warehouse cost of ownership by decreasing time, resource and disk space
requirements. The features new to Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 address issues
related to very large and complex data warehousing environments.
Red Brick Vista
Red Brick Vista is a comprehensive, server-integrated solution for
aggregate computation and management. Vista maximizes the query response time
benefits of aggregation, while minimizing aggregation costs such as those
related to storage requirements, maintenance, planning and programming.
Vista provides efficiency of scale for large data warehouses and delivers
multi-dimensional-like speed combined with the openness and reliability of a
relational database.
Vista is comprised of three components:
* Aggregate Advisor
A subsystem feature that helps the administrator decide which aggregates
to create and gives them the ability to audit aggregate performance based on
actual system usage.
* Query Rewrite
A revolutionary part of the system that provides a better alternative to
coding end-user query tools with aggregate knowledge. The Query Rewrite
function transparently transforms SQL queries into aggregate-aware queries
from any set of heterogenous client tools, applications or users.
Administrators can change aggregation strategies without affecting any
existing applications, queries or reports.
* Metadata Layer
A layer of administrative information that includes definitions of the
aggregates and their tables. This layer provides the information required to
process query rewrites, track aggregate table validity and capture the
hierarchies found in business dimensional models.
SQL-BackTrack for Red Brick Warehouse
SQL-BackTrack for Red Brick Warehouse is a comprehensive and flexible
backup and recovery solution for data warehousing that automates much of the
administrator tasks while providing special abilities to maintain very-large-
database safety, consistency and speed of recovery.
SQL-BackTrack for Red Brick Warehouse offers industry-leading product
reliability from BMC Software, Inc. and provides high-performance backup and
recovery features to reduce complexities and help improve administrator
productivity.
TARGETjoin(TM)
Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 introduces TARGETjoin, a new join algorithm, to
its family of industry-leading join technologies. TARGETjoin accelerates
complex decision support queries through its parallel bitmap join technology.
Using TARGETjoin in tandem with Red Brick's other join technologies gives data
warehouse users the flexibility to manage any level of query complexity with
excellent performance and low cost.
Red Brick Warehouse Administrator(TM)
The Red Brick Warehouse Administrator is a graphical Windows-based client
tool designed to give data warehouse administrators the ability to easily
manage all general warehouse tasks, with an emphasis on segmentation, or
partitioning. This tool is available on Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, and
supports Red Brick on any of its platforms with wizards and online context-
sensitive help. The Administrator speeds the warehouse learning curve, guides
"what if" experimentation and helps administrators with incremental schema
evolution.
Query and Index Optimizations
Tuning advances in Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 are automatically selected by
the Red Brick compiler/optimizer and require no data warehouse administrator
or end user intervention. These advances help improve performance on queries
that contain aggregation functions such as COUNT, MIN or MAX on indexed
columns. Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 also offers partitioned parallel aggregation
technology to improve performance in queries with large numbers of GROUP-BYs.
Integrated Enterprise Control and Reporting
Enterprise Control and Coordination (ECC), Copy Management and RISQL
Reporter modules provide functionality to streamline the data warehouse
administrator's management of the data warehouse. Previously available as
elective options, these modules are now included as part of Red Brick
Warehouse 5.1. The integration of these features in the database provide
lower cost of ownership and better database value. Customers upgrading to
version 5.1 will receive this functionality at no additional cost.
VIPS Chooses Red Brick Warehouse 5.1
VIPS, a business unit of First Data Corporation and located in Towson, MD,
is a leader in providing healthcare information solutions to many of the
largest healthcare payers in the United States, including contractors
responsible for processing more than 40 percent of the nation's Medicare
claims. VIPS' solutions are designed to shrink the cost of processing and
adjudicating claims; enable the delivery of cost-effective, high-quality care;
and stop the financial drain of health care fraud.
"In order to provide the highest quality of care and maintain operation
efficiencies, healthcare organizations need to track patient 'events' -- from
diagnosis to cure. Our data warehouse decision support product, MCSource(TM),
enables managed care organizations to assemble and analyze these events,
evaluating their outcomes and the means by which care was delivered," said
Kevin Barber, VIPS' Chief Technology Officer.
Barber added, "The volume and richness of the data required by MCSource to
perform such analyses appear overwhelming. VIPS selected Red Brick as our
underlying RDBMS for MCSource, based on its specialized technology for
decision support, ability to handle massive amounts of data and superior
performance. Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 gives us even more flexibility in
managing the complexities of our data warehouse requirements. We believe its
advances in join technology and optimizations will make it easier and less
costly for our customers to administer and maintain the very large amounts of
data they require to accomplish their business objectives."
Pricing and Availability
Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 is available immediately. Pricing in North
America begins at US$65,000, based on system configuration. Red Brick
Warehouse 5.1 is fully compatible with previous versions of Red Brick
Warehouse, and will be provided as a no-charge upgrade to all Red Brick
customers with current service contracts.
Red Brick Vista requires Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 and pricing in North
America begins at US$20,000. Red Brick Vista is available immediately.
Pricing in North America for SQL-BackTrack for Red Brick Warehouse begins at
US$15,000. SQL-BackTrack for Red Brick Warehouse is available immediately on
UNIX, with NT availability scheduled for the first half of 1998.
Red Brick Warehouse 5.1 can be purchased directly from Red Brick or
through authorized Red Brick value-added resellers, system integrators,
consulting partners and distributors worldwide. Red Brick also has joint
marketing and licensing agreements with several hardware manufacturers.
Information can be obtained through Red Brick Systems direct sales offices in
the United States and United Kingdom, or by calling (800) 777-2585 in the
U.S., or (44) 171-290-8373 in the U.K.
About Red Brick
Red Brick Systems, Inc., based in Los Gatos, Calif., is a leading provider
of comprehensive, integrated, high-performance software products and services
for data warehousing. Its flagship product, Red Brick Warehouse, is the
world's fastest and most scalable relational database for data warehousing,
including data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining.
Red Brick helps businesses transform data into information for faster,
superior decision-making.
Information about Red Brick is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.redbrick.com. News releases and corporate background information may also
be retrieved by fax. For an index of available materials, please call (800)
758-5804, and enter PIN #105756.
Red Brick, the Red Brick logo and The Data Warehouse Company are
registered trademarks and TARGETjoin, Red Brick Vista and Red Brick
Administrator are trademarks of Red Brick Systems, Inc. SQL-BackTrack is a
trademark of BMC Software, Inc. All other trademarks and registered
trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
SOURCE Red Brick Systems, Inc.
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