Meeting Embedded Database Challenges
Edge applications and devices increasingly rely on AI to improve automation and decisions – human and machine – in stand-alone, peer-to-peer, local network, cloud and hybrid environments. The underlying edge data management must leverage a variety of hardware, operating systems, networks, communications interfaces, and programming and scripting languages for applications that use these resources. Zen Edge Data Management delivers against these broad and demanding requirements.
Simplicity
Single, secure, scalable architecture supports concurrent read and write, using NoSQL and SQL across popular embedded environments
Speed
Faster than leading purpose-built databases at time-series, JSON-based or Blob document stores, and SQLite
Security
Provides data encryption for data at rest and in transit
Synchronization
Avoid ETL between devices, gateways, branch and cloud environments – improve speed, lower integration cost, and remove security vulnerabilities
Plurilogic extends Pluriportail with campus-wide student and asset tracking using Zen Edge and RFID
“With Zen data management products, we’ve been able to extend our integrated solutions in the classroom and across campuses to better track and manage students and institutional assets, extending our capabilities to IoT and mobile devices.”
Friends don’t let friends use flat files
ETL, data security, portability, indexing, time-stamping, and other features built-in to modern edge data management solutions no longer require a complex database that doesn’t fit your edge use case. With Zen you get the simplicity of file system APIs with the robust functionality of a real-time database.
Zen: Zero-DBA, Multi-Model, Multi-Platform
- Single architecture – from device to gateway, from server to cloud
- Multi-model, multi-platform, embedded in most popular languages
- No ETL between clients, servers, and cloud
- Modular: 7MB client to 50MB server to full enterprise under 200MB
- AES 256-bit military-grade encryption
- Embed in apps, configurable through APIs
- Built-in automated defragmentation
- Single data file/table size of 64 TB
Tsubakimoto’s Material Handling System sorts up to 10,000 items per hour.
“From our first adoption to the present of course, we have considered changing data base several times, but when it came to an actual performance test, other powerful databases could not reach Zen’s reading and writing speed at all.”
Today’s use cases demand more than SQLite.
Zen Editions
Shared by all Editions
Single modular architecture, code once, run anywhere
Zero ETL between Zen and PSQL ensures less integration and time to completion
SQL and NoSQL APIs
AES-256 bit encryption for data at rest plus zero ETL avoids decryption between development and deployment
Singe data table/file size maximum of 64 TB
Add-On Software
AuditMaster
Generates logs of all DB events, delivering a detailed audit trail
No changes to the application needed
Query and alert capability configurable against specific compliance and security policies
Support diagnosis and data recovery of before/after images
Real-time support of operational Zen and PSQL databases
Shared by all add-on software
API from CLI or embeds directly in your application
Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 support
Embeddable APIs and configurable dashboards for remote management
Upgrade from PSQL to Zen
Use Cases for Edge Intelligence are everywhere and in every industry.
From chronic disease management in healthcare to digital twinning in manufacturing, the breadth and depth of use cases for edge intelligence is seemingly limitless. The growth of IoT and Mobile and the infusion of AI into them is driving the need to harness and exploit underlying data at the edge rather than simply tossing it or sending it back to the cloud.
Do you need to modernize your Edge Data Management?
- Do you need to analyze and make real-time decisions at the point of action?
- Are you able to manage large sets of local and shared persistent data at the edge?
- Do you need to run on multiple OSes from Android/iOS to Windows/Linux?
- Do you use multiple programming and scripting languages to develop your edge applications?
- Do you support varied types of data: JSON, Blob, traditional structured, etc.?
- Are you struggling to support standalone, peer-to-peer, client-server, Internet/Intranet architectures?
- Do you operate as stand-alone when disconnected?
- Can you handle high-speed, multi-channel data collection and local machine learning inference?
Bringing IoT to ERP: One Stop Shopping for Global Shop Solutions
“With the evolution of the Zen architecture, we can now deploy a small footprint/IoT-enabled database that can run in a serverless mode with just client libraries. That opens up whole new opportunities for customers to put inexpensive IoT-enabled devices into settings that used to require expensive PLC devices.”
Finally, a Developer Centric NoSQL/SQL Engine for Edge Data Management
Developers increasingly need to leverage flat files for resource-constrained applications or real-time data collection and storage, SQLite for client-only platforms, and databases to address JSON/Document data, time-series, and structured transactional data.
With Zen, developers get a simple NoSQL API (alternatively, Zen offers full SQL with ACID compliance) that covers standalone embedded application needs at the device or gateway level. Zen also offers publish-subscribe support for 100s or 1000s of downstream devices or upstream servers in client-server, intranet and cloud configurations.
SQLite … good enough just isn’t in today’s demanding use cases
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Packaged and priced for the Embedded OEM market and Operational Technology
Zen is based on PSQL and is backward compatible to 1994 and each version is supported at least seven years.
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