Case Studies Overview

The design, architecture, functionality and performance characteristics of the Clusterpoint Database Management System (DBMS) allow it to be used cost-efficiently in a wide variety of scenarios in different industry and business sectors.

Making existing legacy SQL database applications more scalable

Solving legacy database performance and data growth problems by off-loading full content access, ad hoc search, semi-structure and unstructured data management to Clusterpoint.  Preserving investments made in the last two decades into relational DBMS.  Adding contemporary Web applications and functionality and running Clusterpoint along the old legacy database platforms.

Re-organize your information for maximizing revenues in the Web model

At Clusterpoint we do not claim that we would someday organize all of the world’s information.  We deliver a good software tool: Clusterpoint Server, so that you can organize your own information for the Web model, for maximum business benefit.

With Clusterpoint’s database platform you can do it cost-efficiently, at fast performance, in totally searchable and scalable way.  Clusterpoint database management system empowers you to start building your corporate database applications with the same data retrieval speed and quality you can get from the world’s largest Internet services.

Having your own original and valuable database content, you can start competing with Internet services industry leaders with better developed custom solutions, with better targeted business models and better knowledge of your customers.

We provide you the enabling software technology you can fully exploit, customize, and take advantage of.  As a result your organization can start generating more business value from your data and customers.

Clusterpoint Server can be used as a main data storage platform for any XML data

Ideal for new projects developed using the latest Web-technologies

With Clusterpoint DBMS you can start with a small investment and a grand vision and then scale your service globally as your business grows.

Replacing costly integrated solutions of SQL and an enterprise search engine:

Save substantial sums of money over the life-time of your database application, previously requiring to integrate and maintain two totally different systems.  TCO may be decreased multiple times with Clusterpoint DBMS.

Clusterpoint’s innovative XML database software provides most of the commonly used functionality of software products belonging to enterprise search engine market category (market size about $ 1 billion annually).

Fast and easy to use Internet-style ad hoc keyword search functionality previously was available only through the integration of two diverse systems: an SQL database + an enterprise search engine platform.

Usually this required extensive development time and sophisticated integration services.  It also required the operation and maintenance in parallel of a database platform software and a search engine platform software.  It is expensive model still widely used by many organizations.

Clusterpoint’s software empowers customer applications with entirely searchable and scalable database technology in a single programming and operational platform: Clusterpoint Server.

Run Clusterpoint database as a high-availability system

With Clusterpoint Server software you can manage many of your mission-critical business applications and Internet services nearly at 100% availability.

Whenever a single node fails in a distributed database cluster, other nodes will still be operating and customer business services will be unaffected but some temporary inaccessible data items.

Even a downtime for that particular cluster node will be minimal, while system engineers will replace the malfunctioning equipment and restore the last backup copy, for example, by copying it from a neighbor cluster node used to backup every database copy in pairs.

Most customers would not probably even notice temporary unavailability of few data.
The system availability level can be raised just adding more cluster nodes, or by mirroring the whole distributed database cluster to another identical cluster.

It results into high satisfaction level for Clusterpoint’s database software users and customers, knowing that their corporate or Internet service is never “lost” completely.

Aggregate information from multiple data sources for instant access

With Clusterpoint you can easily aggregate information from different data sources, which can be your legacy databases running on different vendor platforms, created by different applications, located in different file systems or just some data exported from Excel worksheet.  Store combined "knowledge" in XML into Clusterpoint database storage, which automatically indexes all content, and you can immediately start searching for relevant information, filtering, pivoting and slicing it in many different views.

You can discover hidden corporate knowledge through Clusterpoint’s DBMS powerful data retrieval engine when querying an aggregated “smart” XML database.

You can perform free format ad hoc querying and get immediate answers without running reports pre-programmed and optimized for performance by expert programmers. There is no need to be dependant only on a limited number of queries and Web forms when accessing Clusterpoint Server.  Users themselves can create specific, customized ad hoc queries against their own aggregated corporate XML data.

With Clusterpoint you can start enjoying true real-time and instantly responsive data warehousing functionality for massive databases, containing relevant information from multiple legacy data sources, and provide easy to use Web access to that aggregated corporate data storage.

Case studies and references

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