Source: Digital Daily, 2015.05.28, http://www.ddaily.co.kr/news/article.html?no=130838

Tmax Knocks on the Door of the Global Market, Hedges Its Bets on Tibero 6

2015 marks an important year for TmaxSoft, Korea's leading enterprise software company. After 4 years of research and development, TmaxSoft has released Tibero 6, a large-scale DBMS with vastly improved performance, security, and compatibility.

On March 25^th, TmaxSoft hosted “Tmax Day 2015” and invited key clients and partners to COEX Auditorium in Seoul to showcase its next generation DBMS, “Tibero 6”, and several new big data products. At its introduction, TmaxSoft unveiled its plan to place Tibero 6 in direct competition with Oracle in the global market.

TmaxSoft has set 2015 as the year for overseas expansion with a goal of obtaining a 10% share of the global market. TmaxSoft has already received significant interest from clients and the software sector since its release of Tibero 6.

Tmax's optimism with its global market prospects is thanks to Tibero 6. The latest version of Tibero is a direct response to clients’ strong desire to avoid vendor-lock and its associated high costs.

According to Tmax, “The current Korean DB market is overly dependent on a single vendor and as a result faces issues with modifying large number of applications, third-party integration, and performance degradation. Compatibility between DBMS is one of the most important DBMS functions, and the movement to find an alternative DBMS has been gaining momentum.”

Furthermore, with the rapid increase in large-scale RDBMS operations that must process large-scale data, maximizing the efficiency of a DBMS is becoming a growing concern.

Moreover, with changes in laws and regulations as well as ever-increasing complexities of managing massive data and systems, the need for reliable DBMS performance with a high level of security and systematic performance management is only increasing. Tmax sees these changes as a positive in the market environment.

Tmax is emphasizing Tibero 6’s ability to process large-scale data, extensive compatibility and support for easy migration, security with guaranteed performance, and integrated performance management. With its hyper thread architecture, Tibero 6 provides exceptional performance, security, and compatibility.

Unlike Oracle, which uses a multi-process architecture, Tibero 6 uses a cutting-edge multi-thread architecture, which integrates with I/O multiplexing technology and minimizes memory and disk I/O contention. As a result, Tibero 6 provides more efficient and higher performance processing and optimized resource utilization.

According to the company, Tibero improved its recovery time for large-scale data by employing a multi-node parallel recovery method instead of a single node method during system failure or routine maintenance. Tibero 6 also employs an efficient shared server structure with minimal overhead compared to its competitors, resulting in higher performance and a greater number of active sessions.

In addition, Tibero 6 provides an automated migration tool with superior compatibility with other DBMS, and it also provides superb integration with heterogeneous DBMS through flexible DB link compatibility. Oracle requires manual migration for SQL, procedures, and metadata when integrating with other DBs, but Tibero 6 uses its migration tool to automatically migrate SQL, procedures, and metadata of various DBMS such as DB2 and SQL server.

Tibero 6 allows applications developed in other DBMS to run on Tibero without modification by using a SQL translation framework function. Tibero also improved its compatibility with MS SQL server, IBM DB2, as well as Oracle. When migrating DB2 or MS SQL server applications, the applications are automatically converted by the SQL translation framework, fundamentally eliminating the need to modify applications and the side effects that can occur from modifying applications during DB migration.

When a user wants an application that uses Oracle OCI (Oracle Call Interface) to use Tibero for certain tasks, both Oracle and Tibero can be used concurrently by using the same OCI API without additional application development. As for security, index range scan is supported for TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) columns without performance degradation. Integration with external solutions via Tibero’s EPL (External Procedure Loading) guarantees up to 5X faster performance than through the EPA (External Procure Agent) integration, allowing rapid decryption when Tibero is integrated with an encryption solution.

Moreover, when attempting to externally manipulate data in Tibero 6, a digital signature is required for modifying data in TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) columns. This digital signature prevents unauthorized data modifications and provides superior security.

TmaxSoft plans to provide 100% compatibility with Oracle, an enhanced TAC (Tibero Active Cluster) function, improved security, and improved integration of Tibero disk DB and in-memory for Tibero 7, which is set for release in 2016. This is a part of TmaxSoft's strategy to provide a DBMS with consistent data processing for memory and disk data and automatic data deployment at a whole new level.