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The Valentina DB team has posted another video showing how to insert an EAN barcode into a Valentina report. Valentina Reports is available for every major development environment for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, including several RAD tools like Runrev and REALbasic.

Valentina DB  senior developer Ivan Samhain has been testing Valentina against NIH human genome data to see how well Valentina performs with complex databases and specifically to the advantage of Valentina’s vertical database model over traditional relational database models. His test ran against a smaller data set of 6 GB but it is interesting.

While customers come to Valentina DB from a huge spectrum of development backgrounds and tools (from Adobe Director to C++ to Cocoa Objective C), a large number of customers across the board who work with complex data – financial services and medical data – seem to take a shine to Valentina for producing vertical market applications or services.

Valentina Dev Log is reporting that V4RB.rbx allows integration with REALbasic for Cocoa. REALbasic is a popular cross-platform development tool (deploys for many platforms, though not as many as Runrev), but its also very significant because its about as close an experience to Visual Basic on the Mac as you can get.

When is no news a feature? When its Valentina DB and Windows 7. Our ongoing tests so far with Valentina DB and Windows 7 have revealed no incompatibilities so far. But that’s just us though – no matter what we do, Paradigma Software’s compliance can’t fix it if your development environment itself has a problem with Windows 7.

Well – there is one fix, and that is to change your development environment. The more you rely either on very portable, non-development specific SQL or utilize the cross-platform, cross-environment native Valentina API, the easier it is to move your front end to another development environment.

Paradigma Software just released Valentina DB 4.2 and Valentina Reports 4.2 – another solid release driven by customer feedback.  Something that is being overlooked though is that Valentina for Cocoa developers now get the Valentina for iPhone Client library for free. (more…)

As president of Paradigma Software with its columnar database technology Valentina, I would like to think that the announced acquisition of Sun By Oracle is about the database market and a response to innovation in the field of databases. Indirectly, I think it is, but it isn’t about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. More so, it is about Oracle’s big iron position in the computer industry and what it learned from the failed shopping trip by IBM. (more…)

Over on Bob Keeney’s blog I offered three views of cross-platform support based on his observations regarding REAL Software’s REALbasic. (more…)

Not only is Valentina 4 out, but Paradigma Software has also launched the Valentina DB Client for iPhone. There is a Valentina for iPhone Facts now available on the site. This doesn’t force you to use a tool other than Apple’s own xCode and Objective-C to develop your application, and it gives you full client access to Valentina Office Server and Valentina Embedded Server.

Mirye Software has released Runtime Revolution 3, the cross-platform, multimedia and application development tool. There are many things to like about Runtime Revolution – its very easy to learn, and it lets you create multimedia solutions just as well as standard interface applications. But that’s not the best feature.

The best feature is that you can create your application on one OS and deploy to multiple operating systems. Build in Mac OS X for example, and you can compile for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux – and the applications all look native on all platforms and don’t have that sluggish feel of Java applications.

Runtime Revolution 3 adds several new features, including a new script editor, better online help, a new start center and more. (more…)

A new reason has come up to be swearing at MySQL rather than swearing by MySQL.

The MySQL Performance Blog reports that MySQL Community Edition has not been upgraded since November 2007, whereas it previously received twice-a-year updates. This product is the free and open source version of MySQL (The M in LAMP) that was MySQL’s source of success.

What is bothersome is that the MySQL Community Server page lists version 6.0, however if you follow that link, you are directed back to the 5.0.x version and also directed to their per server/per year license, which has an enticing per server/per year license starting at $595 but quickly stepping up to $4999 per year.

I’ve had a few folks point out to me that this is a better price than Valentina, until they figure out that Valentina initial pricing is for two years of updates, not one, bringing the price down to about the same or below MySQL pricing. That is intentional.