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The two “Must-Haves” — Scalability and Distributed Management

“Abrevity has offered an integrated data classification application and non-relational database built to support data classification on a large scale. Now, with version 3.0, Abrevity offers multi-threaded classifiers and a multi-node distributed form of their database. This supports distributed queries and transactional consistency across nodes, extends the concept of vast to prodigious dimensions, and gives enterprises, both large and small, more tools for optimizing the business and organizational value of their information.”

— Anne MacFarland, Director of Data Strategies & Information Solutions, The Clipper Group

Abrevity's patent-pending Entity Database (EDB™) is the foundational technology for FileData Classifier and FileData Manager. EDB is the first technology to transcend the limitations of traditional relational database and enterprise search technologies. Read more about EDB (previously known as SLICEbase™) in this report from The Clipper Group.

Through EDB and Abrevity's unique distributed application framework, FileData software can empower true global data management. EDB can automatically “slice” data into small, independent slices. Similar to a parallel computing environment, each slice manages a subset of the data, but also link to data in other slices. For example, a small slice could reside in the Phoenix office. Ten slices could reside on a server in Los Angeles and twenty slices on a server in the New York data center. FileData Manager aggregates and manages these slices for a single federated view from corporate HQ in Chicago.

Entity Database

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Information Classification & Management (ICM) solutions such as FileData Classifier work by scanning file systems to index the metadata and then opening the files to scan for content. The metadata information is stored in a repository so it can be queried, tagged and managed. In today's large enterprise storage environments, where billions of files are becoming the norm, the amount of metadata that an ICM solution must manage is enormous. Compared to products using conventional database technology or enterprise search engines, Entity Database offers orders of magnitude better scalability, flexibility and affordability. Using EDB together coupled with Abrevity's distributed application technology customers are provided with high-speed file classification and metadata management services across their large and widely distributed enterprise.

“Abrevity was founded based on the foundation that metadata management is the key to data management. Past experience has shown that products built on now 30-year-old relational database technology just don't have the capability of managing large amounts of meta data, especially when that data is distributed. We knew we had to go back to the drawing board and build a new foundation before we could build a product. That foundation is our EDB technology, a technology that allows true scalability by not only managing more data in a “slice” but managing multiple distributed slices as if they were all local.”

— Joel Harrison, Co-Founder and CTO, Abrevity