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TeraText SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES DATABASE SYSTEM RELEASE 4.2

TeraText Solutions, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), announced the availability of TeraText Database System (DBS) Release 4.2.

Release 4.2 of the TeraText Database System represents a step forward in the management of very large collections of text and semi-structured textual data, such as XML. The TeraText Database System uses proprietary indexing technology to store and retrieve terabytes of semi-structured textual data through the use of powerful free text and metadata query operators.

The new TeraText release provides increases in database scalability and performance, simplifications and refinements to the database design process, and new features for application development, as well as other enhancements and performance improvements. The TeraText DBS now has been ported to Linux/Itanium and Linux/x86 which have been added to SAIC's continued support of Solaris and Windows. The 4.2 release also supports the Microsoft .Net development environment.

"The increased performance and enhanced applications of the new release can provide database designers and administrators with more security and flexibility," said Steve Rizzi, SAIC corporate vice president.

SAIC has built upon its existing platform with security and administration support integrated into the core product. Additionally, for Windows/x86 SMP machines, the performance of all TeraText DBS servers has been significantly improved; sites using single-processor machines will enjoy faster record insertion, as well as a ten-fold increase in the amount of data which can be indexed in a single database.

The TeraText DBS content server now supports the modification of the database definition of live databases and now is able to monitor its memory usage. This allows administrators to specify trigger points for restricting the total memory usage of the Content Server. Under Windows, administrators also can specify the priority class and processor affinity of Content Servers and Application Servers. Additionally, changes now can be made to in-use, online databases without needing either to take databases offline or to rebuild.