Database Applications

"I need to develop 3 applications in 2 months. Now what?"

Developers of all stripes have faced this dilemma - independent consults building custom applications for their clients, concerned about time to project completion and application reliability; Packaged application developers needing to develop full-featured, high-performance software that's easy to install and use; Dev team managers in a corporate environment looking to build departmental applications that are easy to deploy and maintain and that integrate with corporate IT standards. For all, stability, flexibility and open database connectivity are essential to productivity and profitability.

CodeGear's stable, proven development environments help developers to improve software quality, reduce software defects and complete projects faster. Whether you're building applications for standalone desktop, client/server workgroups, or multi-tiered enterprise - choosing the right development tools is crucial to project success.

CodeGear solutions give software developers broad database support to meet the specific requirements of your application design. Our Delphi and C++Builder IDEs include licenses for the InterBase database as well as Blackfish SQL, so you can get started right away. Developers have deployment options for both standalone/embedded mode and also client server mode using either InterBase (native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris) or Blackfish SQL (Java and .NET).

CodeGear solutions also support the most common third party databases with our dbExpress technology. dbExpress allows you to write your SQL code once, and then deploy against any supported database (including InterBase, Blackfish SQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Informix, Sybase ASE and SQL Anywhere).

For developers creating desktop and client-server applications, CodeGear provides a range of solutions to support the requirements of your specific environment, whether you're developing in C++, Java, or one of our visual rapid application development IDEs. Each CodeGear solution is optimized to bring developers advantages including:

Productivity
Ease of deployment
Comprehensive functionality
High code quality
High performance

Delphi - Visual RAD app development for Windows

Delphi delivers high performance, low overhead applications, that run natively, without the requirement for a VM/runtime environment. Using Delphi's native controls in Windows, you create compelling GUI applications in less time with feature-rich functionality and the proper Windows look and feel. Building data-driven applications is easy using a wide variety of included components for database access, queries, and building user interfaces. The dbExpress database technology in Delphi provides a consistent way to connect to a wide variety of data sources. Delphi's database technology is also very scalable, delivering high performance whether you're building small footprint applications with an embedded database, client/server and web-based AJAX applications, or multi-tier distributed applications and web services.

C++Builder - RAD C++ development for Windows

C++Builder is the only C++ development solution that combines the power of C++ with drag-and-drop visual development database applications. With C++Builder, you can build both native Windows and web-based database applications in minutes with minimal coding. Use the Data Explorer to manage database connectivity to all your data sources with native drivers for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Sybase, Informix, InterBase and Blackfish SQL. Prebuilt data access, query, display and navigation components make it easy to connect to databases and build interactive user interfaces. Just place components on the visual design surface and set the component properties and events to hook up the pieces. The new query builder makes it easier than ever to visually create and test SQL queries. Whether you're building traditional client server database applications or modern data-driven AJAX web applications, C++Builder is a powerful tool to get the job done fast.

JBuilder - Cross-platform Java development

Develop Java Swing-enabled applications for desktop and workgroup environments. Full support for SQL standards supports connectivity to enterprise databases, as well as local data stores based on SQL standards. JBuilder's DataExpress architecture gives developers the tools to quickly and easily build JDBC compliant applications and applets. Find out more about developing database applications with JBuilder. Deliver high performance, high-quality applications using JBuilder's memory and CPU profiling, leak detection, and thread debugging tools based on Optimizeit technology. Speed application design and implementation with full two-way UML-based modeling capabilities, as well as automatic documentation generation.

InterBase - Powerful, embeddable SQL database

InterBase offers a powerful, high availability database for embedded and small-to-medium enterprise server applications. Easy installation, small footprint, automatic crash recovery, self-tuning, Unicode, SMP support, SQL 92 compliance, and near zero maintenance make InterBase 2007 an ideal database alternative. InterBase provides a portable database solution (Windows, Linux, Mac, and Solaris) with the scalability and flexibility to grow with your application requirements.

Blackfish SQL - High-performance, small footprint database for Java and .NET

Blackfish™ SQL is a SQL-92 compliant transactional database for managed code environments (Java and .NET). The design and implementation of Blackfish SQL emphasizes database performance, scalability, ease of use, and a strong adherence to industry standards. Blackfish SQL can be run as a Windows Service, as a standalone server or as an inprocess, embedded database. Blackfish SQL is ideally suited for .NET and Java data storage with support for .NET CLR and Java stored procedures and triggers and where you want a database solution that's easy to deploy and requires little or no database management.