A version of Sleepycat's high availability embedded database has been certified for use with MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 3.1 (CGE). Sleepycat's Berkeley DB High Availability (HA) 4.2 uses single-master replication to offer a scalable, fault tolerance enterprise database. Like CGE, it targets telecom and network equipment makers.

According to Sleepycat, Berkeley DB HA was certified for use with CGE after it passed a “comprehensive battery” of tests. The company says the combined CGL platform can scale across multiple blades in a chassis, or multiple servers on a network, providing hot standby and automatic failure recovery without data loss.

“The certification of Berkeley DB on MontaVista Linux provides our joint customers with the highest level of confidence in developing and deploying applications for rigorous carrier grade environments, where performance, scalability, security, and high availability are paramount,” said Bob Monkman, senior product marketing manager of MontaVista.

“This partnership combines the market leaders in embedded databases and embedded Linux,” added Rex Wang, VP of marketing at Sleepycat Software.

Sleepycat was listed among second-tier embedded database providers in a market research report published one year ago by VDC. Sleepycat was the first embedded database vendor to claim compliance with the OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux specification, in May of 2003.

MontaVista has long worked with the OSDL to define and implement the CGL specification, and it shipped Carrier Grade Linux 3.1 in October of last year. MontaVista first marketed a version of Linux for the telecom market in April of 2002, and first claimed compliance with the CGL specification with the CGE 3.0 release in January, 2003.

Enea, a new competitor to MontaVista in the CGL market, announced a Linux port of its Polyhedra 5.1 high availability database last month.

 
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