- PrimeBase
PrimeBase is a
SQL database server developed and maintained by SNAP Innovation GmbH of Hamburg, Germany. PrimeBase runs onLinux , Windows andMac OS X platforms. Although PrimeBase is a general purposeDBMS , the bulk of the PrimeBase users are in the print and pre-press industry. This is due to historical reasons and the fact that the PrimeBase features such as efficient BLOB handling and full-text search focus on the requirements of applications in this area.PrimeBase began life as P.INK SQL in
1990 . It was originally developed for theMacintosh by the company P.INK Software Engineering GmbH and Co, in Hamburg. At the time, it was the onlySQL server that ran on the Macintosh. In1992 P.INK Software began porting the database toUnix . In particular, the SunSPARC workstation and theIBM RS/6000 .The database was used as the central component of the P.INK Press Publishing System, which was installed at a number of major newspapers in
Germany and world-wide. Following a number of management errors that saw the company grow too fast P.INK Software declared bankruptcy in1995 when shareholders were unable to agree on the terms for refinancing the company.A number of former employees managed to secure the rights to the P.INK SQL database and in 1996 they founded SNAP Innovation GmbH. Support and development of the database was continued under the name of PrimeBase. Today PrimeBase is a family of products consisting of the PrimeBase SQL Database Server, the PrimeBase Replication Server and the PrimeBase Application Server.
Primebase is also known for the "Primebase XT Storage Engine for
MySQL ". PrimeBase XT is released under aGPL license. Primebase has also released a "Scalable BLOB Streaming Infrastructure for MySQL".External links
* [http://www.snap.de SNAP Innovation GmbH]
* [http://www.primebase.com PrimeBase]
* [http://www.primebase.org PrimeBase XT Storage Engine for MySQL]
* [http://www.blobstreaming.org Blob Streaming]
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