Read what customers are saying about the Raima Embedded Database Managers
"Risk and knowledge management is a complex problem, and with large scale engineering projects using a database engine that supports complex data modeling, through the network model, allowed us to concentrate on our product rather than the data management," says CTO Marcus Schorn, who is the member of PLATO’s Managing Board responsible for PLATO product development. "The result was a more efficient development cycle, superior application performance, and faster time to market with better quality. We are a long time user of RDM databases and when we needed to deploy a multi-user scalable version of SCIO™ for huge engineering organizations RDM Server 8.0, was the obvious choice. With a defined upgrade path, we can build on our existing investment in intellectual capital, by re-using our existing code base while taking advantage of the higher end functionality of RDM Server."
"Ever since first deploying, our confidence in RDM has only grown stronger, thanks to its outstanding ease of use and high performance. The net result is we never needed to consider changing the database tools, and are now pleased to upgrade our system to the latest version." says Terje Vardenær Arnesen, Development Engineer for Jotun.
"When dealing with larger customer installations the key requirement is to manage POS data across multiple instances of our systems simultaneously. With the quality and performance of the Raima Database Manager (RDM) products, we’ve made the right choice in our database selection," says Mikael Smedman, Technical Director for Winpos POS-Systems, adding "After years of success with the RDM Embedded product, we needed to scale up and make the move to Birdstep’s high end product, RDM Server. With Birdstep’s seamless upgrade path and compatibility between the products, Winpos could make this move without interruption and investment in intellectual capital. With such smooth transition our team could maintain our delivery plans, accelerate development of new required functionality, and satisfy our customer base in a timely fashion."
“When dealing with heavy traffic loads in such a secure application environment, a solid, secure and performance oriented database solution is a must,” says Kenneth Culbert, Engineering Manager for SBR. “We chose Birdstep because we are confident that their RDM Embedded product will provide us with the high-performance throughput and stable data management we require.”
“Of all embedded databases evaluated, Birdstep’s RDM Mobile has the flexibility and ease of use we need, and when you add Birdstep’s excellent pre- and post-sales support, RDM Mobile is the obvious choice", says Michael Laursen – Project leader at Siemens Power Generation, adding, “Birdstep was one of the few players that was able to propose a more complete solution within the embedded database market space”
“RDM Server had the highest performance of all databases we tested for our usage pattern at the time of selection.” commented Andreas Schwegmann - HP Product Marketing Manager. “Since Birdstep’s database management
tools are embedded within HP’s application a database administrator is not needed and end-users are shielded from the database level of operation.”
“Birdstep RDM Embedded has proven itself in meeting the stringent requirement of high data integrity.” says Rodney Spruell, Ceterus Senior Developer. “We have accomplished satisfying 100% data integrity even after some of the most brutal test scenarios,”
"With increasing complexity of device software today, an operating system alone is only one element to a successful application. There is an ever increasing demand for solid real-time database solutions that can organize and manage large amounts of data quickly and efficiently – we feel Birdstep provides a solution to meet these demands", commented Mark Drexler – Business Development Manager for Wind River.
“We chose Birdstep for data storage because of its high performance and low-memory footprint,” commented Paul Fraley, Software Manager, Juniper Networks
”To develop an embedded mapping engine we were looking for a database that has a small code footprint but allowed rich functionality and high processing efficiency in handling semantic information. We were also looking for a product that would provide us with a set of PC tools to prepare and analyze the data. RDM Embedded fit the bill,” explained Dr. Anatole Lokshin, Vice President of Data Products and Technology for Thales' navigation business. “Birdstep offered an extremely solid code base, a rich set of functionality in a footprint under 100K, an efficient and convenient set of PC tools and a professional services team that was able to specially customize the product to provide us the flexibility we required – this made Birdstep an easy selection for our mapping products.”
Miu Leung, MDA Program Manager for Aeronautical Information Systems said, "Birdstep supports the most current and popular operating systems, which is important to our AIS customers when engaging in their aeronautical system upgrades. Predictable performance is also critical to our customers. Birdstep's network model architecture gives us performance we can rely on regardless of how large the database grows".
“We appreciate Birdstep’s RDM Server for the fact that it is like a black box that our customers have to care very little about. It just does its job, and it does it very well,” commecnted Michael Oljemark, Director of Product Management, ReadSoft. “We have been embedding the Birdstep database into our products since version one of FORMS back in 1993 and we are very satisfied with our choice.”
“Birdstep is able to meet the database needs of the whole range of INTEGRITY users, from enterprise customers to embedded software developers,” commented Mike Wolf, Green Hills Software's general manager of Advanced Products. “Birdstep's databases have a track record of success in mission critical environments.”
“Birdstep’s reliability won out over other database competitors and we’ve gained the most success stories from using Birdstep,” said Q4T CTO Esteban Sarabia. “RDM Embedded’s capabilities are extremely marketable and have given Q4T a commercial advantage. RDM Embedded seems limitless.”
"Birdstep's latest version of RDM Embedded has a rich feature-set and expressiveness that provides key database feature differentiation,” commented Dan Mender, Green Hills Software, Director of Business Development. “Birdstep's RDM Embedded meets our INTEGRITY customers' mission critical embedded database needs.”
“Since we launched our application in December 2003, we have been very pleased with the performance and stability of Birdstep's RDM Embedded. In fact, the product has been so successful that we were able to expand our application's deployment to additional traders. In part, this is because RDM Embedded has been a solid contributor to the product's success,” commented an official of NCDEX.
“We chose Birdstep's RDM Embedded because it is mature, reliable, and designed for embedded applications. Additionally, our data relationships are complex and RDM Embedded is uniquely capable of modeling these relationships without compromising performance. The fact that Birdstep's RDM Embedded is certified on Wind River's VxWorks 5.5 operating system and offers source code proved to us that Birdstep understands the needs of embedded application developers,” said Raphi Hess, Native Networks Vice President of Research and Development.
“Birdstep has a significant customer base, which is impressive and gives us confidence in the product,“ said Chris Hunt, General Dynamics UK Ltd. Engineering IT Manager.
“We chose RDM Mobile 3.0 because it is ideal for our application and business needs. Our ECM product must provide the best performance, yet have accurate and highly available data across multiple platforms. RDM Mobile's transaction and multithread support allowed us to create a reliable system over a broad range of platforms. Additionally, Birdstep's policy of making source code available, gives us the platform independence we need to address our customers requirements,” explained Rob Mayer, Configuresoft Vice-President of Research and Development.
“RDM Embedded has a successful history with us, so we had great confidence in upgrading to RDM Embedded 7.0 to support our data management software needs,” said Intermec Director Bob Eckles. “We chose RDM Embedded for a number of reasons. It has a robust API set, the performance is excellent, and RDM Embedded provided additional features we required to support the upgrade of our applications to a services architecture. An additional benefit is RDM Embedded's database mirroring feature, which simplifies the development of fault-tolerant systems.”
“Birdstep's RDM Embedded was an easy selection because it offers all of the functionality we needed on our target platform. Birdstep has consistently exhibited exceptional cooperation to meet all of our business demands including providing source code for the database,” according to a Boeing spokesperson.
“RDM Embedded's high-performance gave us complete confidence in using this product. RDM Embedded has proven itself in the financial services market and was an easy choice for us,” commented an official of NCDEX.
“Birdstep RDM Embedded offered us the best reliability coupled with speed for our products,” said David Kraft, Engineering Manager for U1 Gaming based in Bozeman, Mont. “It was essential that the database perform at top speed on a continual basis.”
“RDM Server’s integrity, speed and ability to function without a database administrator convinced me that it would be the best database for our products.” - GNT Development Manager, Francis Perrelet. “RDM Server has exceeded my
expectations.”
“We appreciate finding products like Birdstep’s RDM Embedded that are compact, but very effective.” says Eric Olivi, INFORCE. “We recommend using Birdstep’s databases because they are fast, very secure and allow for easy migration.”
“RDMserver has enabled Keystone’s Development Team to realize a conspicuous reduction in development time because of its Dynamic DDL functionality” says Bill Gannon, Product Engineer for Stanley's Keystone Product. “RDMserver is the only database he’s aware of that can handle the data sorts Keystone uses without using external tables or coding”.