February 26, 2009

Beginning February 1, 2009 Roman Simakov, Ph.D. joins SciDB project and will participate in development of world largest data warehouses for scientific purposes. Roman is the scientific director of Red Soft laboratory in Murom, and also teaches DBMS course at Murom Institute of Vladimir State University. Red Soft is the vendor of data warehousing solutions for banks and government organizations. We hope that scientific experience acquired by Roman when working on SciDB project will be applied in the future Red Soft products.

July 18, 2008

Red Soft Corporation announces immediate availability of Red Database 2.1.0.

The Red Database 2.1.0 kernel is based on Firebird 2.1 and supports all of its new features and extensions:

• Triggers for global database events
  
• Global Temporary Tables
• Recursive query support via Common Table Expressions
• New virtualized system tables for database monitoring
• and many other.

The Red Database 2.1.0 engine also contains the following new features above Firebird 2.1 baseline:

• Multi-threading architecture - SuperClassic server
• External stored procedures
• Stored procedures and triggers debugger
• Full-text search
• Improved security subsystem, providing the full set of tools for:

• authentication,
• fine-grained authorization controls, at row and field level,
• keeping detailed audit trail for users’ access to data,
• system and data integrity checking,
• analysis of security incidents.

New features in the security subsystem:

• Integrated cryptographic module
• Complete DDL operations access control
• Complete DML operations access control
• The roles assigned to a user have cumulative effect on his (her) access rights
• The roles can be defined globally for the server
• The support for access policies
• Multi-factor authentication
• Audit system with capability to save log in binary format and analyze it via SQL statements
• Access controls for database service functions (backup, consistency validation, etc)
• Security clean-up for deallocated memory
• Integrity checking for server files and data protection facilities
• Special tools for metadata and data integrity checking using digital signature

DBMS Red Database 2.1.0 is is currently being certified for compliance with FSTEC of Russia regulations for 5th class of data protection from unauthorized access and 4th level of control for the absence of undeclared capabilities.

July 15, 2008

Red Soft Corporation released the DBMS Red Database 2.1 Release Candidate 4. The distribution kit of Red Database 2.1 RC4 Community edition is available for free download and installation from our web site.