The document describes Ingres Database, an open source database management system (DBMS) that provides high performance, availability, scalability, security, and manageability for mission critical environments. It integrates easily into complex IT environments, ensures maximum performance with minimal overhead, and supports very large database systems in demanding operational environments. Ingres helps customers optimize existing investments, lower costs, extract value from data, streamline processes, and improve productivity.

1. PRODUCTS
Ingres Database
Performance anD avaIlabIlIty for toDay’s mIssIon crItIcal envIronments
In today’s tough economic environment, availability, scalability, security, and extensive
companies worldwide are positioning their IT manageability features.
infrastructures to support their most critical Ingres is a leader in supporting mission-
business needs: reducing costs, optimizing critical applications and helping manage the
processes, and preparing for new business most demanding enterprise applications of
opportunities. Business leaders recognize Fortune 500 companies. As an open source
that staying competitive means preparing for database, Ingres Database has the advantages
change. Key success factors include: of collaborative development, rapid innovation,
• Increasing flexibility to manage volatile and lower cost – something that proprietary
markets alternatives can’t match. Ingres continues to drive
• Optimizing existing IT investments and both technological and business innovation,
lowering costs providing the enterprise features you need with
the open source model you want.
• Extracting value from existing data
Ingres Database delivers superior application
• Streamlining and simplifying business
performance for transaction-intensive
processes
environments. Ingres Database provides a
• Improving productivity flexible, robust data server that integrates
The solution is Ingres. Ingres Database easily with your existing environment –
integrates easily into complex IT environments ensuring high performance and streamlined,
to ensure maximum performance with minimal easy administration while managing massive
overhead. amounts of structured and unstructured data.
Ingres Database Highlights Key Success Factors
Ingres Database is the leading enterprise Increasing Flexibility to Manage
open source database. It supports very large Volatile Markets
database systems in demanding operational
Ingres Database helps customers and business
environments. A commercially supported, open
partners improve profitability, reduce risk, and
source database management system (DBMS)
deliver best-of-breed solutions to customers.
that reduces IT costs and time to value, Ingres
Ingres supports industry-standard SQL and
Database provides exceptional performance,

2. ProDUcts
InGres Database
continues support of the latest standards, such as Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Open
Database Connectivity (ODBC), and Microsoft .NET.
Optimizing Existing IT Investments and Lowering Costs
Ingres Database runs on a wide array of Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms, enabling you to
take advantage of Ingres using the equipment you already own. Upgrading to the latest version of
Ingres Database from any current Ingres product is a highly automated task. Ingres provides a robust
toolset that simplifies use and lowers costs. Ingres Visual DBA allows all common database analyst
(DBA) activities to be administered from anywhere on the network, and our Visual Performance
Monitor allows DBAs to view activity on the system and take corrective action quickly and easily.
Robust backup and restore functions offer DBAs high-level data availability while eliminating
many manual tasks. Notably, Ingres Database enables online backups, eliminating the need to
interrupt production to secure the information.
Extracting Value from Existing Data
Ingres continues to
While Ingres Database provides exceptional transactional performance, it also provides superb
reduce the complexity, analytical performance. This capability allows customers to use Ingres Database as the foundation
time, DBA skills, and for business intelligence solutions, as well as for their transactional systems.
cost associated with Streamlining and Simplifying Business Processes
database management Ingres Database supports a set of open, industry-standard security mechanisms such as roles,
by eliminating, password-based authentication, and DBMS schema authorizations. In addition, Ingres Database
simplifying, and provides full auditing capabilities, making compliance with industry and government regulations
a simple task.
automating many
For user authentication, Ingres Database supports pluggable authentication modules (PAMs).
tasks typically
These open standards ensure flexibility and maximum security with easier validation and
associated with verification.
an enterprise-class
Improving Productivity
database.
Ingres has a tradition of providing tools to help companies with a small number of administrators
manage a large number of systems. Ingres continues to reduce the complexity, time, DBA skills,
and cost associated with database management by eliminating, simplifying, and automating many
tasks typically associated with an enterprise-class database.

3. Benefits of Ingres Database Features
High-Performance Technology
• Enhanced log writing
• Smarter query optimization, including improved caching
• Reduced contention between concurrent users
Security
• Role separation for regulatory compliance
• Support for roles and users
• Configurable user authentication mechanisms using pluggable authentication modules
System Management
• Automated backup and restore functions
• Rich GUI tool set along with flexible command-line control
• Flexible restore options
Application Development
• ANSI SQL compliant
• Unicode support
• Silent installation
• Continued support of embedded SQL, ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, SQLJ
• .NET Driver
Available Platforms
• IBM AIX
• HP Tru64
• HP-UX, HP-UX Itanium
• Linux on Intel processor-compatible servers, Linux Itanium
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista 32- and 64-bit

4. ProDUcts
About Ingres Corporation
Ingres corporation is a leading provider of open source database management software and support services. Ingres powers customer success with the
flexibility, cost savings, and innovation that are hallmarks of an open source deployment. Ingres supports its customers with a vibrant community and world
class support, globally. based in redwood city, california, Ingres has major development, sales, and support centers throughout the world, and more than
10,000 customers in the United states and internationally. for more information, visit www.ingres.com.
INGRES CORPORATION : 500 ARGUELLO STREET : SUITE 200 : REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA 94063
PHONE +1.650.587.5500 : FAX +1.650.587.5550 : www.ingres.com : For more information, contact info@ingres.com
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