How UDA Differs from Other Strategies
A number of leading DBMS vendors have begun shipping new databases and updated versions that follow "universal database" strategies. Many customers may be curious about how those strategies differ from Universal Data Access. In the other approaches, data from across the organization is consolidated in the DBMS, and the DBMS is extended with additional processing capabilities to handle new data types. This strategy is attractive for several reasons:
- It centralizes data for more efficient management.
- It places a DBMS "wrapper" around new data types, which can ensure the protection of DBMS security and transaction services, while offering other potential benefits such as content indexing.
- Many DBMSs are very efficient at serving up data, so organizations can generally expect good performance for applications based on traditional and nontraditional DBMS data.