Valentina Database News

Beaverton, Oregon based Paradigma Software, Incorporated is happy to announce that Valentina for Director fully supports the recently announced Adobe Director 11, and the release of fully Director 11 compliance on the Mac OS X platform.

The new release includes three components: two on Mac OS X, and one on the Windows platform. These include:

• A Carbon based version of Valentina for Director 3.5.2 that is backwards compatible with previous versions of Director.
• A Universal Binary Version of Valentina for Director 3.5.2, compatible with Director 11 on Mac OS X.
• Valentina for Director 3.5.2 on the Windows platform, which has a single component and is fully backwards compatible by itself to Director 8.

A major new feature of Director 11 is full Unicode support. Although Valentina supports over 200+ encodings (all supported by previous versions of Director, such as Director MX 2004 and earlier), Valentina core technology is based on UTF-16, the most comprehensive version of Unicode for working with not only western but far eastern languages. Valentina is fully compatible with Director’s unicode implementation.

“With the experience of working with major Asian corporations like Nikon Corporation, we knew that UTF-16 was the best route, since searching for variations on proper names in languages like Japanese and Chinese hit roadblocks if you only have UTF-8 support,” said Ruslan Zasukhin, Vice President of Engineering at Paradigma Software.

Because of the dual release, it is possible for Mac OS X client applications built with either the Carbon or Universal Binary versions of Valentina for Director to communicate transparently with Valentina Office Server or Valentina Embedded Server, regardless of the operating system on the server-side. Transformations between the non-Unicode Carbon version and the Unicode Based Valentina Server are handled transparently.

Valentina for Director is available in two configurations: V4MD ADK Versions for deploying local, database projects, and Valentina Developer Network, that also adds the ability to deploy, royalty free - local, client-server, and server-only database solutions. V4MD ADKs begin at $199, and Valentina Developer Network begins at $599.

Valentina is a true business ready database with SQL support, Unicode, XML import/export, stored procedures, strong encryption, over 60 code examples and free community level support. Valentina also supports innovations like virtual pivot tables, custom system tables and other advanced features not available elsewhere. It is also attractive to Director developers because it can run off of any media, offers massive text compression routines, optional picture compression and is Shockwave safe. Valentina for Director supports a special “Execute Any SQL” function that accelerates your development.

Valentina Server (Embedded and Office) run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and also adds advanced server properties, event scheduling and hot back up. You can also script Valentina Server with PHP and Ruby on Rails. Importing legacy databases is easy with Valentina Studio - included with VDN and Office Server - utilizing ODBC.

To celebrate the release, all Valentina Developer Network for Director orders, for a limited time, will also include a free copy of Valentina SSL Adapter (a $100 value), an add-on to Valentina Embedded Server that enables SSL only and mixed unsecured/SSL communications with Valentina Embedded Server.

FAST DATABASE VENDOR GIVES A FREE STD ADK TO EACH CUSTOMER

Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc and publisher Mirye Software Publishing announce the 10th anniversary of Valentina with a special giveaway: a free copy of a Valentina ADK Standard Edition to developers working on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.

Between Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2008) and President’s Day (February 18, 2008), registered developers can choose a free copy of Valentina 2.5.8 ADK Standard Edition. The giveaway is available on the Paradigma website at http://www.valentina-db.com/en/gift. Read the rest of this entry »

February 11, 2008. Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc and publisher Mirye Software Publishing announce the release of version 3.5.2 of its ultra fast database technology Valentina.

Valentina is the underlying technology behind both Valentina Office Server as well as a line of developer tools for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, from Microsoft .net framework to Apple xCode. Read the rest of this entry »

Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc and publisher Mirye Software Publishing announce the release of version 3.5.1 of its ultra fast database technology Valentina, as well as the release of Valentina for Ruby/Ruby on Rails for Mac OS X. Read the rest of this entry »

Advanced Server Properties First to Show Modern Programming Practices Applied to Databases

Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc and publisher Mirye Software Publishing announce the release of version 3.5 of its ultra fast database technology Valentina. This update is available across the product line, including Valentina Office Server, Valentina Developer Network and visual database environment Valentina Studio.

Valentina Office Server, Valentina Embedded Server and the free Valentina Community Server for Linux now support custom database properties, some of which include both read and write properties. This treats databases on servers as objects, much as modern programmers have treated custom objects in development. This represents a new breakthrough in database development – while object-relational and true object-oriented databases have existed for years, treating the database itself as a programmatic object is new. Read the rest of this entry »

Paradigma Software, Inc announces the release of version 3.4 of its ultra fast database technology Valentina. This update is available across the product line, including Valentina Office Server, Valentina Developer Network and the free, Linux based Valentina Community Server.

Valentina technology release 3.4 incorporates new tracking and monitoring features for Valentina databases – locally and remotely on a network. Read the rest of this entry »

Beaverton, Oregon. Paradigma Software, Incorporated, makers of the ultrafast database system Valentina, announces an initiative to provide easy migration of applications built around MySQL AB ’s MySQL database server for developers who work with REAL Software’s REALbasic cross-platform development environment. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom System Tables, Performance Improvements and Coding Examples

Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc announces the release of version 3.2 of its ultra fast database technology Valentina. This update is available across the product line, including Valentina Office Server, Valentina Developer Network and the free, Linux based Valentina Community Server. Read the rest of this entry »

Stored Procedures, Linux Support and Advanced Server Features

Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc announces release version 3 of Valentina Office Server and Valentina Developer Network for deploying royalty free, standalone and client-server applications. This major release provides the greatest number of overall improvements to the platform since the release of Valentina 2 in March 2005, while providing backward compatibility with existing solutions built with Valentina 2.x. Read the rest of this entry »