Technology Overview

What does it do?

Build and run high-performance database software applications in a new, more simple and efficient way, using just industry standard XML data format, substantially improving your organization business productivity and productivity of your customers.

Eliminates multiple database tables and related application software complexity:

Radically increases database ad hoc querying performance, crucial for Web:

Cuts database management efforts & shortens application development time:

Clusterpoint Server - DBMS software with linear scale-out ability, designed for XML

It is a distributed XML database server architecture DBMS software with linear scalability to address database growth problem and performance issues:

Open standards based client-server database architecture with open API:

 Store and manage data objects with different structure within a single database

You can start doing things impossible with traditional relational architecture databases. 

One of the biggest advantage of Clusterpoint is that you can store completely diffrent objects into the same database (which we call storage).  Clusterpoint Server automatically indexes all elements in your database content for ultra-fast access and search, creating Clusterpoint Index - complete data index for any custom database objects.  There is no need to manage multiple tables, column indexes and relations in Clusterpoint architecture.

In our architecture, Clusterpoint Server empowers you to store any custom XML objects, having different data structure, different size, diffrent content, and still can provide relevant information retrieval, sorting, filtering - as if you would be using relational database.

Fast Internet-style ad hoc queries:

Add super-fast Internet-style search queries to your database applications and always retrieve the most relevant data first.

Clusterpoint DBMS not only indexes entire database content, but also has a built-in infomation ranking mechanism for flexible positioning, grouping and ordering of data for the maximum relevance and performance.

With Clusterpoint technology, you can solve two major database usability problems existing today:

• Problem solved: Performance of search.  It often disappoints when a database size grows too large.  Quickly finding relevant information in large size legacy databases is difficult and expensive.  With Clusterpoint you can make lightning fast custom search queries with complex data ordering and grouping requirements, where search is performed accross a distributed cluster database.  Outperform legacy SQL systems by a factor of 100 to 1000, experiencing sub-second response times for your Web application.
  
  
• Problem solved: Relevancy of search. Many application software systems have an underlying legacy database which can be accessed by only a limited number of queries and reports, pre-programmed and optimized for performance by expert programmers.   Clusterpoint’s Internet-style ad hoc querying system allows the users themselves to create specific, customized queries from any known content in the database and still always get the most relevant data out of your database.  Information ranking is used to bring the most useful database information on the first Web page, with follow-up pages containing less ranked (less important) results.  Information ranking mechanism is programmable by your own business rules and requirements in Clusterpoint database architecture.
  
  

Clusterpoint DBMS is designed for virtualization:

Taking advantage of the latest virtalization software technologies, each database storage is serviced by a fully functional Clusterpoint database server software instance.

This feature empowers you to run many different databases on the same hardware securely and resource-efficiency.

You can also run Clusterpoint software on different operating system platforms, under a virtual machine or a virtual appliance software environment.

Designed for scalability and performance

To illustrate scalability and performance of Clusterpoint XML database software, we have designed Network Traffic Surveillance System (NTSS) product.

NTSS is an appliance based turn-key product of Clusterpoint, which captures and stores versatile and totally different data objects present in everyday Internet traffic (Web pages, emails, files downloaded, chat messages, images, video, binary TCP and UDP connections etc) and stores them for instant access and "replay" all into the same searchable XML database.  With NTSS one can access, search and inspect all corporate network traffic, using just Web browser.

Taking into account large volume of Internet traffic transacted over any corporate network boundary every day, which is an ideal test bed for our database platform, we use NTSS as a turn-key product illustrating performance, scalability and capacity of underlying Clusterpoint DBMS platform.

Unexpectedly for us this NTSS product have already captured attention of corporate security people.  Our intuitive Internet-style user interface makes it easy to work with NTSS even for people without special knowledge about networking protocols or other data communication details. 

NTSS appliance is an easy to use tool how to understand, what is actually going on in the corporate network, understand what it is being actually used for, identify where may be potential or real problems related to network or business security, gather evidence needed to fight cybercrime and Internet fraud, and do many more security related intelligence gathering.  With NTSS those tasks can be done mostly unassisted from technical people.

The device in essence works as an automatic all network traffic recording device for extended time periods (running for weeks and months unattended), in case of necessity offering to instantly discover and review in details what happend over the corporate network in any moment in the past, slicing and pivoting the traffic of interest by type, user, IP/MAC address, protocol, port, time period, size, objects viewed, sent or received, files transferred etc.

Please note that NTSS gathers full actual traffic, not just log events or meta data like many existing network probes and proxy devices.  And NTSS performs full reconstruction of traffic of interest in an easy to use, instantly responding WYSIWYG user interface. 

Clusterpoint DBMS drives all of this NTSS functionality at cutting-edge performance, un-achievable with relational SQL technology.  And scales out to match organization's size, required data retention period and policy.

We decided to make NTSS as a separate product line of our company. 

You can read more about NTSS product.