OpenLink Unleashes Update To Semantically-Aware Column-Store
For Handling Big Data Challenges
Virtuoso 7.2 Enhances Massively Scalable Hybrid (Relational
Tables & RDF Property/Predicate Graphs) DBMS For Secure,
High-Performance, Big Data Management and Integration
Challenges
BURLINGTON, MA. -- February 17, 2015 -- OpenLink Software, Inc.,
today unveiled the latest, most advanced version of the Virtuoso
hybrid data management system, further expanding their
cost-effective, secure, cross-platform, high-performance, and
massively-scalable solution to the challenge of performing and
disseminating insightful analytics over Big, Small, and Diverse
Data. This latest product release delivers record setting
performance, scalability, and agility, alongside unrivaled security
sophistication.
Major Updates
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Enhanced 3rd
Party Storage Services Integration
-- 3rd Party Storage
Services (e.g., Dropbox, Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, Google
Drive, Box, Rackspace, etc.) are mountable and un-mountable
(asynchronously) to Virtuoso's HTTP/WebDAV based File Server layer.
This feature enables end-user level exploitation of open standards
for Web-scale Verifiable Identity (e.g., PKIX) that no longer
depend on domain ownership.
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Loosely-coupled CSV document
support
-- Attachment of external, filesystem-hosted CSV
Documents to Virtuoso frees users from confinement to wholesale
import and export. Once attached, these CSV documents are treated
like native SQL Tables, thereby enabling powerful transformations
into RDF-based Linked Open Data. Net effect, enhanced data
virtualization functionality that enables powerful data integration
and transformation -- without losing the lightweight data
definition and manipulation benefits of filesystem-hosted CSV
documents.
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Loosely-Coupled Data
Transformation Services
-- Enables use of the HTTP POST
method to request asynchronous transformation services to convert a
myriad of structured data sources into RDF-based Linked Open Data,
on the fly.
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Built-in
Nanotation Processor
-- Automatic extraction and
transformation of digital sentences (using RDF-TURTLE notation)
embedded in Email Messages, Online Discussion Posts, Tweets, Social
Media Posts (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+), HTML Body, and Plain
Text documents, into RDF-based Linked Open Data, which is then
stored in the host Virtuoso instance. This feature provides users
with the freedom, power, and flexibility to create structured data
wherever and whenever -- as long as the target destination is a
content input control that supports the "plain/text"
content-type.
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Loosely-coupled
SSL/TLS
-- For enhanced security, SSL/TLS version and
associated cipher selection is now configurable. Net effect, you
can now explicitly disable the use of specific SSL/TLS versions
(e.g., SSL/TLS 3.0, which is susceptible to the POODLE
exploit).
"Virtuoso 7.2 continues to demonstrate OpenLink's profound
understanding of the fundamental challenges impeding the pursuit of
agility shared by individuals and enterprises alike, in regards to
big, small, disparately-located, and heterogeneously-shaped data
access, integration, and management," said Kingsley Idehen, Founder
& CEO, OpenLink Software. "As established technology innovation
leaders in these realms, none of these functionality enhancements
is delivered without paying special attention to individual privacy
and enterprise security -- alongside unobtrusive implementation,"
he added.
More details of the additions, fixes, and other changes in this
update of both Open Source and Commercial Editions, may be found
here.
Availability
The shrink-wrapped commercial edition of Virtuoso 7.2 is
available now for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris, with
32-bit and 64-bit support throughout. Other Unix platforms are
available on request.
The Open Source edition is available from Github.
Live Showcases
Special Offers
A number of special and upgradeable licensing deals are
available for Virtuoso 7.2.
- The Personal license brings most enterprise-grade features to
the desktop, fitting an individual's budget and without requiring
enterprise-grade administration or training.
- Several Developer licenses enable cost-effective learning and
experimentation, from $0 to $999, depending on the features you
choose to explore.
- Extra-special limited time server-class license specials, bring
the full power and benefit of the new Release to any enterprise, at
unimagined price levels.
Learn More About ...
About OpenLink Software
OpenLink
Software is a privately-held software company with offices in
the USA and the United Kingdom. It has been the leading provider
and technology innovator in the universal data access middleware
market since 1993, and over 10,000 companies currently use its
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Contact
Helen Heward-Mills,
OpenLink Software, Inc.
Tel: +1 781 273 0900
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