FourJs Awesome generoDB Database Engine (Free Trial!)

FourJs Software makes Genero, a multi-platform, "write once, deploy everywhere" business-application development environment comprising a complete IDE and a SQL-aware 5GL programming language with simple connectors to front-end and client environments and web services, that plugs and plays with most popular SQL DBs. They market it as a solution in situations where OOP vs. Database or skills vs. platform-deployment needs are becoming unmanageable, and it is extremely slick. They also make generoDB, a high-capacity, high-performance SQL database optimized for "robust realtime" projects. It performs more like an in-memory database without sacrificing ACID expectations. Has automated failover and backup, replication -- the whole nine yards.

And guess what! We have all four versions of generoDB (for Linux32, Linux64, Solaris and Windows) available for free download and trial. Hustle on over to our little registration page, surrender some easy-to-replace personal data, and grab a version for your favorite OS.

generoDB is architected to minimize locking and promote concurrency, while preserving data integrity. They accomplish this by efficient use of large amounts of RAM, under control of a concurrency engine and multi-platform, multi-threaded dispatcher; and by realtime JIT compilation of SQL, among other strategies. In enterprise client/server and collocated deployments, generoDB lets you get away with fewer (and older) servers for a given performance level (they claim they can save you between 40% and 60% on hardware). But generoDB is also set up to exploit heavier-than-usual iron (e.g., huge RAM complements, symmetric multiprocessing), and can be deployed in an embedded-scale system factor as well. Robust SQL version and high-level language compatibility means it can play well with existing applications, and avoid confining future ones.

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