Kirix Strata

Infobox Software
name = Kirix Strata



caption = Kirix Strata 4.1.1 running on Windows XP
developer = Kirix Corporation
latest_release_version = 4.1.1
latest_release_date = July 31, 2008
operating system = Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista, Ubuntu Linux
genre = Web Browser, RDBMS
license = Proprietary EULA
website = [http://www.kirix.com/ www.kirix.com]

Kirix Strata is a specialty web browser designed for data analytics. [cite web | url = http://blogs.computerworld.com/kirix_data_browser?rec=1 | title = Strata: A browser designed for analytics | publisher = Computerworld | last = Hall | first = Mark | accessdate = 2008-05-07] Strata offers a browser's ability to view web pages, but also includes additional tools to perform data analysis and create reports based on structured data from local files, external relational databases and the Web.

The browser incorporates Mozilla's XULRunner [ [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner_Hall_of_Fame Mozilla XULRunner Hall of Fame] ] into a proprietary data engine to create a rich internet application for working with data. Kirix Strata is a commercial product that uses the cross-platform wxWidgets toolkit and is supported on both Microsoft Windows and Linux.

History

Kirix Corporation is a data analysis software company founded in January 2001 by four brothers and a friend. [cite web | url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=(kirix)%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22kirix%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no | title = Making Quick Work of Data | publisher = Chicago Sun Times | last = Guy | first = Sandra | accessdate = 2008-07-13] In its early years the company specialized in identifying duplicate payments and other overpayment errors in large corporate accounting systems.

In February 2005, Kirix launched Kirix Strata as a new desktop database for Windows and Linux at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston. The product combined some of the capabilities of a spreadsheet with those of a database management system and won the Product Excellence Award in the Best Desktop-Productivity-Business Application category. [cite web | url = http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/001111.html | title = Kirix Data Base App Debuts | publisher = InfoWorld | last = Scannell | first = Ed | accessdate = 2005-02-17]

In July 2007, Kirix relaunched Strata in beta as a specialty browser for working with data from anywhere, including from the Web. The beta product took the database features of the previously released version and incorporated the Mozilla Gecko layout engine to provide Web connectivity. [cite web | url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/kirix_browser_database/ | title = Linux database becomes a browser | publisher = The Register | last = Kewney | first = Guy | accessdate = 2007-08-07] Strata was officially released out of beta in April 2008 with the intention of bringing the simplicity of a web browser to the world of tabular data. [cite web | url = http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/7935 | title = B-EYE Spotlight Podcast | publisher = Business Intelligence Network | last = Powell | first = Ron | accessdate = 2008-07-15] Because of the web connectivity and the user-centric analytic features, Strata can also be considered a productivity tool for Business Intelligence 2.0. [cite web | url = http://blog.snaplogic.org/?p=197 | title = Data Services + Data Browser = BI 2.0 | publisher = Snaplogic Blog | last = Marino | first = Chris | accessdate = 2008-06-01]

Features

As with other browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, Kirix Strata provides tools to view and interact with web pages. However, it deviates by focusing on manipulating and interacting with structured data:

* Data Access: Web data (e.g., HTML tables, RSS feeds, CSV files), external databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle) and local data files (e.g., Excel, Access, text-delimited data).
* Data Analysis: Sorts, filters, copies, queries, calculated fields and relationships.
* Reporting
* Scripting and Extensions: Data-enabled version of JavaScript with support for SQL.
* Other: Runs on Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and Ubuntu Linux; supports up to 18 exabytes per project; 60 billion records per table; 250 million table per project.

References

ee also

*List of web browsers
*List of web browsers for Unix/Linux