An IT cluster resident seeking to increase the effectiveness of its database management system (DBMS) has won a 32 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation.
The Linter product line. Photo: screenshot.
Database management systems are software programs designed to help store, administer and extract information from large groups of data on everything from individual computers to huge mainframes.
The R&D spinoff of Relex, a big DBMS player in the Russian market, is spending 64 million rubles on upgrading its current DBMS product, called Linter Bastion, into a more effective product named Linter AT.
The other 32 million rubles is coming from parent company Relex Group and the Voronezh Construction-Finance Company, from the city where the firm is headquartered.
“The issue with using existing, universal DBMS to deal with specific tasks is that these DBMS have inherited architecture that isn’t always capable of accommodating specific demands, or if it is, doesn’t go about it in the most effective way,” said the founder and general director of the Relex spinoff, Igor Boychenko.
“The solution to this problem is to create a special DBMS that has the key ability to adapt, configure itself and adjusting to the needs of the specific application,” he added.
Linter AT will have this key adaptive technology, Boychenko said.
“This a principal characteristic that our competitors just don’t have. At the same time, Linter AT can comparatively easily create solutions, the results of which are comparable with specialized DBMS like NoSQL or NewSQL,” he added, referring to the market-leaders developed by Microsoft.
LinterAT will be more energy-efficient and save on technical infrastructure due to its adaptability to cheaper system firmware, the developers say, not to mention the autonomy of its running processes.
The Linter product line has run for years and is Russia’s only fully domestic and legitimate DBMS.