October 18th, 2007 - Scimore UAB announces that Embedded Databases no longer require OEM licenses. From this point on, all ScimoreDB products are free to use for both commercial and non-commercial applications. This move allows us to focus more on database development, enterprise level support services and outsourced software development.

New release of ScimoreDB Parallel Server v2.5 (BETA).

The new ScimoreDB 2.5-beta version includes Lucene (CLucene) full-text indexing and searching. Developers can create Lucene indexes and designate tables' fields as full-text searchable, so that the content of these fields will automatically be indexed. Using Lucene, we can provide a much wider range of search features such as support for wildcard, phrase queries, a query syntax similar to Google, sorting and ranking results. Lucene full-text is already successfully used by thousands of developers.

Easy to use and zero administration
ScimoreDB does not require any extra binaries to be installed in order to work with Lucene full-text. Lucene libraries are embedded into the DB engine. In addition, seamless Lucene integration with SQL syntax and standard client interfaces such as .NET provider makes it easy to start using full-text searching with ScimoreDB.
Scale-out
ScimoreDB can split data by rows among DB instances in a cluster using partition column. Since there is no data redundancy, each instance will index and search its own rows. Therefore, the Lucene indexing and searching time increases linearly by adding more machines to ScimoreDB cluster. ScimoreDB transparently does data partitioning, querying from instance and merging results includnig the sort order for Lucene full-text index.
Maintenance
ScimoreDB does automatic full-text index maintenance. Developers and administrators don’t need to do extra work such as scheduling full-text update. However, if needed, it is possible to rebuild the full-text index with a single SQL command. Also, using the backup and restore SQL statements, the data is highly mobile and can be easily transferred to other servers.
Consistency
ScimoreDB’s safe recovery and ACID support guarantees that the data is consistent at all times. The full-text index update is accomplished within the scope of ACID transactions. If the transaction begins but then fails or is aborted, the Lucene index that catalogs particular table’s fields remains unchanged.
High Concurrency
Concurrent updates, inserts, deletes or selects can be issued in the same manner as working with an ordinary database table. However, modifications to the index may take a couple of seconds before changes are reflected in full-text index for single updates, or longer for large batches.

Note: To get new version, please install current v2.0 version, download the new server executable here and replace old one with it.

New client components for Delphi

Simple open source data access Delphi components - TsmConnection, TsmDataSet and TsmQuery - allows to query and modify ScimoreDB database from Delphi for Win32 applications. Download here...

About Scimore UAB.
Scimore UAB, a technical company with over 5 years of experience in database development, develops and sells the high performance distributed SQL database that offers significant cost savings to power high-load websites, business applications and packaged software. Our mission is to help customers reduce hardware, software and development costs by providing exceptional database performance and affordable price. For more information on Scimore UAB software, visit www.scimore.com.