Berkeley DB Java Edition

Sleepycat Software Introduces Berkeley DB Java Edition

Apache, JBoss, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics embrace new high
performance, native Java(TM) database 


EMERYVILLE Calif., June 16, 2004   Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB,
today announced the general availability of Berkeley DB Java Edition, a high
performance, pure Java(TM) database designed for the demanding requirements
of enterprise and service provider applications.  Based on an innovative
write-once, append-only log architecture, Berkeley DB Java Edition is built
for speed and high concurrency while preserving transactional data integrity.

"It's great to see innovative software developers such as Sleepycat show such
strong commitment to building high performance Java products," said James
Gosling, Sun Microsystems vice president and Sun Fellow credited with
creating the Java programming language.  "Berkeley DB Java Edition is a
robust high performance component that fits well in large-scale,
mission-critical applications."

"Java and open source technologies are rapidly growing in popularity among
large-scale systems developers," said Carl Olofson, IDC's program director
for information management and data integration software research.
"Sleepycat's Berkeley DB Java Edition is well positioned to capitalize on this
trend and should appeal to those developers building high performance
applications in Java."

"We saw a need in the market for a pure Java version of our market leading
Berkeley DB database, driven by the need for portability and ease of
development.  We responded by developing Berkeley DB Java Edition," said Mike
Olson, president and CEO of Sleepycat Software.  "We've had over four
thousand downloads of Java Edition already, and we are very pleased to see
such high customer interest in our new product."

"When the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics needed to develop a system for
providing efficient access to UniProt, the world's most comprehensive protein
catalog, we initially used a large relational database but decided to switch
to Berkeley DB Java Edition for increased performance," said Eric Jain,
technical lead for the project.  "With Berkeley DB Java Edition, we have a
simpler setup, a 3x increase in data import speed, a 5x increase in
performance and a 10x decrease in disk storage requirements."

"Berkeley DB Java Edition meets a need in the market for a fast, reliable,
pure Java database for developers of large-scale Java systems," said Marc
Fleury, CEO and founder of JBoss, Inc.  "Berkeley DB Java Edition complements
JBoss Application Server for these developers with specific non-relational
needs such as object caching."

"Berkeley DB Java Edition will, without a doubt, be the de facto standard
Java API for manipulating BTree databases," said Alex Karasulu, technical
lead for the Apache Directory Project.  "We're so convinced of this that we
are basing the Eve Directory Server on back-ends built using Berkeley DB Java
Edition."

Berkeley DB Java Edition features full ACID transactions and recovery for
high reliability, record-level locking for high concurrency, schema
neutrality for data storage in its native format, and zero administration for
low cost of ownership.  Berkeley DB Java Edition offers the same storage
services as the popular Berkeley DB engine, but the new product was
completely redesigned in Java to take advantage of Java's portability and
services such as deeply integrated threading and NIO.  Berkeley DB Java
Edition includes full source code for easier integration and debugging.

Berkeley DB Java Edition is immediately available under a dual license that
offers customers the benefits of both open source and proprietary software
models.  The full product may be downloaded at:
http://www.sleepycat.com/javaed.


About Sleepycat Software
Sleepycat Software (www.sleepycat.com) makes Berkeley DB, the most widely
used application-specific data management software in the world with more
than 200 million deployments. Customers such as Amazon, AOL, British Telecom,
Cisco Systems, EMC, Ericsson, Google, Hitachi, HP, Motorola, Openwave
Systems, RSA Security, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO and Veritas rely on Berkeley
DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their
mission-critical applications. Profitable since it was founded in 1996,
Sleepycat is a privately held company with offices in California and
Massachusetts.

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Editorial Contact:
Sleepycat Software
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Email: coda@sleepycat.com