MATISSE THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION

• The challenge

  Increasingly, companies must automate and reengineer their design, production and distribution processes in order to stay competitive.

  Changes in the global economy have caused a focus on information as a critical commodity. Corporate revenues depend on consistent control over creation, management and conversion of the business and cultural information which already accounts for 53% of labor revenue in the USA.

  The development of an effective information system requires an architecture based on a database management system (DBMS), which should be capable of meeting the following requirements:

  • Managing complex multimedia objects (graphs, bill of parts, networks, images, sound, text, photos, etc.)
  • Managing very large objects (from 1 single character to 4 billion) and large data volumes (10 to 100 or 1,000 gigabytes)
  • Operating in mission-critical industrial environments (24 hours a day, 7 days a week with fault tolerance)
  • Handling high transactional throughput
  • Expanding multi-user capacity (100, 1,000 users or more)
  • Navigating hypertext and hypermedia
  • Integrating highly heterogeneous Client-Server architectures

• Currently available DBMS cannot meet the challenge

  The leading relational database management systems in the '80s were designed to manage small, weakly interdependent alphanumerical objects.

  Relational databases have proven to be poor and costly performers for managing large volumes of complex data.

  Object oriented systems are no better. Although they are able to model the complexity, they cannot effectively manage more than 10 users and/or large volumes of data (due to poor quality of servers).

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