DataDirect Shows Off New Shadow
New mainframe tools for SOA, new connectors for MySQL
October 15, 2007 —
DataDirect Technologies expanded its reach this month, by adding support for MySQL to its line of database drivers, and by announcing today a major update to its Shadow mainframe integration suite.
The forthcoming Shadow version 7 is based on technology that takes advantage of specialty processing engines in IBM’s System z9; DataDirect has at least one patent pending on the technology. The System z’s specialty processing engines offer mainframe customers a sort of free lunch: They are not speed-governed and do not count against one’s contracted mainframe processing capability, thereby reducing costs.
Shadow 7 will allow the use of the zIIP (System z9 Integration Information Processor) with workloads other than DB2, including mainframe data queries and SOAP/XML parsing. It will also allow the use of the zAAP (System z Application Assist Processor) in SOA integration processing.
The Eclipse-based Shadow Studio management console offers new BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) tools, including a graphic designer and a runtime management interface, but users are free to run any BPEL 2.0 designer.
DataDirect vice president of product operations John Goodson noted in a prepared statement that the company offers “high-performance access to data wherever it’s stored—in a relational database, in an XML document, or now, in a mainframe environment.”
Hooking Up MySQL
The Progress Software subsidiary had earlier, on Oct. 1, announced that its line of database connectors—DataDirect Connect for ODBC, DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC and DataDirect Connect for JDBC—were now available for MySQL Enterprise 5.0, with a claimed 100 percent specification compliance.
Both the JDBC and the ODBC drivers support the MyISAM and Memory (formerly HEAP) storage engines as well as Oracle’s InnoDB, share basic features such as support for connection failover and load balancing, and can be managed by DataDirect’s performance tuning wizard. They will be sold separately.
The Type 4, native JDBC driver is claimed to be fully compliant with Java SE 6, Java EE 5 and JDBC 3.0; select JDBC 4.0 functions are also supported. The driver works with a variety of application and Web server environments, including the Apache Jakarta family, BEA’s WebLogic, IBM’s WebSphere and Red Hat’s JBoss; the company claims that any standard environment will do.
The ODBC drivers run on Linux, Unix and Windows platforms, can be managed with DataDirect’s ODBC Driver Manager, and are compliant with ODBC 3.52, with Level 1 conformance to the core API plus Level 2 features. They also support SQL leveling, for interoperability across systems that don’t use the same SQL flavors.
DataDirect’s Connect drivers work with IBM’s DB2, Microsoft’s SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase as well as MySQL; the ODBC drivers also support Informix DBMSes.
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