SAND Technology Announces Release of SAND CDBMS 6

MONTREAL, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- SAND Technology Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNDTF), today announced the general availability of SAND CDBMS 6, the latest release of its industry-leading massively parallel, column-oriented database management system. SAND CDBMS 6 is specifically designed to deliver optimal performance for complex analytics on massive and continuously growing amounts of data, offering an unprecedented level of speed, scalability, and agility based on SAND's patented columnar database technology. Key features of the new version include:

Elastic Cloud Scalability

SAND CDBMS 6's on-demand resource allocation ensures efficient use of shared processing and storage resources to deliver an agile and secure private cloud architecture that is fully transparent to the end-user community.

Augmented Data Security and Privacy Options

SAND CDBMS 6 extends the high level of data security offered by the internal architecture of SAND CDBMS by adding new algorithms for encrypting specified data at the column level. This option provides robust protection against external or internal intrusion, and supports compliance with PCI standards.

Augmented Text Analytics Functionality

SAND CDBMS was the first columnar database to offer the ability to blend text search functionality into standard SQL commands. SAND CDBMS 6 extends these capabilities with "relevance ranking" functionality along with support for SPELLED LIKE and SOUNDS LIKE comparisons. This functionality is essential for complex analytics on textual data such as customer feedback.

Rich Mathematics Package

SAND CDBMS SQL syntax has been augmented with new mathematical functions specifically designed for complex data mining processes.

Distributed Load Process for Limitless Scalability

Addition of a new distributed load process permits a high level of load process scalability, enabling unlimited speed for data loads.

Mobile Computing Support

With SAND CDBMS 6, enterprises with mobile users can easily manage the movement of data from the central data warehouse to local personal data marts on ultra-portable mobile devices such as netbooks. With up to 98% compression, SAND CDBMS cloud to mobile data transfers require far less bandwidth, avoiding bottlenecks and vastly increasing speed.

"On-line transaction processing systems (OLTP) were designed for storing rapidly changing, volatile data, not for high-performance analytics on slowly changing, operational data," said Mike Pilcher, Chief Operating Officer for SAND. "Transactional database vendors cannot address the challenge of making legacy software handle the massive data volumes, user populations, and complex analytic demands of today's enterprises. With over 15 years of research, development, and customer experience behind it, SAND CDBMS was built from the ground up to handle these demands simply, with sub-linear scalability, and with little to no disruption to existing systems and resources. SAND CDBMS 6 continues to lead the industry in innovation as the world's most advanced, massively parallel, column-oriented database."

"We are very proud of SAND CDBMS 6," said Richard Grondin, Chief Technology Officer at SAND Technology. "For many years, SAND has been a pioneer in the column-oriented database market, and our product, options, and extensions showcase that maturity and focus. SAND CDBMS 6's new functionality will enable our enterprise customers to take maximum advantage of columnar database technology, to satisfy their most demanding data, user, and complex analytic requirements."

About SAND Technology

SAND CDBMS is the world's most advanced massively parallel, column-oriented database software, accelerating the largest user populations, the biggest data, and the most complex analytics. SAND CDBMS also provides cost-effective nearline data access designed to lower TCO and improve operational performance for SAP NetWeaver BW, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAS, and more. SAND Technology has offices in the United States, Canada, Western and Central Europe, and can be reached online at www.sand.com.

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