ANTs Software Inc., purveyor of the self-named high-performance database, is looking to lure MySQL users who are wary of Oracle Corp. applications in the wake of the database giants purchase of MySQL storage engine InnoDB.
ANTs on Monday plans to announce that it has added support for MySQL in its most recent update. The update also now supports Informix databases and will be available on Monday.
In addition, for a limited time, ANTs is offering a deal on MySQL licensing costs in which MySQL customers who migrate to ANTs Data Server will pay 50 percent of their current MySQL annual invoices.
The offer, called the ANTs QuickStart program, includes a full production version of the ANTs Data Server Enterprise Edition, full support, and product updates and upgrades.
The QuickStart program is otherwise priced at $1,995 per two-way server per year.
The announcement brings the total number of major databases now supported by ADS 3.4 (ANTs Data Server 3.4) to six: MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Oracle TimesTen, SQL Server and Sybase.
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ADS 3.4 is now compatible with MySQL data types, functions and SQL extensions, allowing most MySQL applications to be ported quickly, without the major rewrites, retraining and costs typically associated with application migration, according to Cesar Rojas, senior marketing director.
ANTs is looking to lure users off MySQL and Informix databases with the promise of cutting total cost of ownership, Rojas said.
In addition, the company is targeting MySQL users who are leery of what might befall them in the wake of Oracle Corp.s purchase of InnoDB, a storage engine thats a pivotal piece of the MySQL database.
“I think we have an alternative to customers concerned by the acquisition of InnoDB by Oracle,” Rojas said. “They see the possibility for Oracle to increase the price moving forward after [MySQL] renews the [licensing] agreement with Oracle.”
On the Informix side, ANTs is also supporting data types, functions, stored procedures and triggers. Rojas referred to a Fortune 100 retailer that he declined to name but that has migrated 12,000 lines of database schema off Informix and onto ADS.
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The retailer found 99.8 percent compatibility post-migration for the schema, Rojas said, adding that for stored procedures, the retailer again found 99.8 percent compatibility, for 22,000 lines of code.
ADS 3.4 also now supports Microsoft .Net and heterogeneous replication to non-ANTs databases.
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