“db.linux, like many other open-source embedded databases on
the market, is a scalable, extensible product applicable to
telecommunications, network/systems management and real-time
contexts. Combining both relational and pointer-based
navigational network database models, db.linux uses a C API library
and, with C or C++ application development tools, allows developers
to create high-performance embedded database applications.”
“Centura Software Corporation has partnered with OpenAvenue, a
self-titled ‘open-source service provider’ for the actual hosting
and management of the db.linux source code. The hosting will take
place at OpenAvenue’s OpenAvenue Source Infrastructure System
(OAsis), a web-based infrastructure of technology and services
(still in beta). Like many such on-line open-source directories,
OAsis will work to ‘facilitate collaboration among db.linux users
and developers”. The site will also feature project hosting,
life-cycle management and collaboration on a global scale.”
“db.linux runs on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and ‘descends’, says
Centura’s Andrew Klein, from Centura’s Raima Database Manager
(RDM), a product that has been a mainstay of Centura’s line for the
past 15 years. Companies such as AOL, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel and
Cigma have used Centura’s RDM in their set-top boxes, games and
other products. It is this success that db.linux hopes to leverage
with its foray into the open-source marketplace.”