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Stanford Technology Group Inc. Announces Unique Role in Oracle's Warehouse Technology Initiative

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Stanford Technology Group Inc. played a pivotal role in Oracle's Warehouse Technology Initiative, announcing its involvement in delivering high-performance, multidimensional access to existing Oracle7 databases. The company's MetaCube family of decision support software provided the analytical processing for relational data warehouses, allowing users to replicate data into the IRI Express database or use MetaCube to directly analyze the data in the relational database. This move showcased Oracle's commitment to the data warehousing market and offered customers a choice for data warehouse analysis.

Key Takeaways:

  • MetaCube, a decision support software from Stanford Technology Group Inc., provided high-performance, multidimensional access to existing Oracle7 databases.
  • The MetaCube analysis engine stored data and metadata directly in the RDBMS, leveraging the open, parallel, and scalable features of leading relational systems.
  • MetaCube eliminated the need to replicate data into non-relational data repositories, providing high-performance access directly on relational systems.
  • The software tracked usage characteristics and provided agents that automatically pre-summarized and reused frequently-requested data on the server.
  • MetaCube supported scheduled and real-time queries that could run on either the client or the server, optimizing for large-scale systems.
  • Stanford Technology Group Inc. offered MetaCube's OLE implementation, enabling popular development environments and productivity applications to directly front-end large-scale Oracle7 warehouses.
  • MetaCube's ODBC driver allowed existing query and reporting tools to instantly take advantage of the high-performance, metadata-driven engine.

Statistics:

  • Stanford Technology Group Inc. was involved in Oracle's Warehouse Technology Initiative.
  • MetaCube provided high-performance, multidimensional access to existing Oracle7 databases.
  • The MetaCube analysis engine stored data and metadata directly in the RDBMS.
  • MetaCube eliminated the need to replicate data into non-relational data repositories.
  • MetaCube supported scheduled and real-time queries that could run on either the client or the server.
  • Stanford Technology Group Inc. offered MetaCube's OLE implementation.

Sources:

  • Stanford Technology Group Inc. (STG) announcement, June 21, 1995
  • David Lichtblau, chairman of Stanford Technology Group, Inc.
  • Oracle Corporation
  • Microsoft Corp.
  • PowerSoft Corp.
  • Gupta Corp.

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