ComponentAce are pirates?
"Peter"
Date: 03/29/04
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Date: 29 Mar 2004 06:35:22 -0800
Hi!
I downloaded an Absolute DB from ComponentAce to evaluate some time ago.
I tried it in my project and I was going buy it as the product is good and support guys answered me quickly on all the questions I had.
But recently I found an Accuracer Database of the AidAim Software which appeared to be very similar to the AbsoluteDB.
I decided to learn what is the relationship between ComponentAce and Aidaim and why the databases look so much alike.
I asked ComponentAce and AidAim and I got the replies which I copied below.
Now I see that AidAim and ComponentAce are a competing companies.
>From AidAim reply I got an impression that ComponentAce illegally uses AidAim's database technologies.
I got only positive response and help from ComponentAce, so it is hard for me to believe. Besides I see that AidAim mail is very aggressive and biassed.
But I don't want to deal with a pirates, so I'd love to know the official positions of the ComponentAce and AidAim
on this issue here and I ask them to comment the mails of each other.
Best wishes,
Peter
Reply from ComponentAce:
> Hello,
>
> First I would like to thank you for your question.
> ComponentAce and AidAim are independent companies.
> ComponentAce team worked with AidAim on many database projects,
> including EasyTable and SQLMemTable.
> ComponentAce has the rights on many database technologies and materials
> created by our people and AidAim people till September 2003 at AidAim.
> ComponentAce used and enhanced these technologies and developed the Absolute Database.
> Let me tell you some words about it.
> Absolute, EasyTable and Accuracer have significant differences.
> I will list some of them:
>
> 1) I/O Speed
> Absolute Database is designed to be fast on 1000 records and on
> 10'000'000 records. It has scalable architecture, whereas EasyTable
> becomes very slow with large number of records. And contrary to the
> Accuracer, Absolute Database has a single-user edition specially
> optimized to achieve high performance there.
>
> 2) SQL speed
> EasyTable's SQL engine cannot use indexes for WHERE SQL conditions.
> Absolute Database has sophisticated searching and filtering engine and
> always use indexes when it is possible and the speed of query
> execution by Absolute Database is typically much higher.
>
> 3) SQL functionality
> Absolute Database has very wide support of SQL functions, including
> support of correlated and non-correlated subqueries. EasyTable and
> Accuracer don't have support for correlated subqueries.
>
> 4) Convenience
> Absolute Database allows to have default values for fields and min,max restrictions,
> to display progress of potentially lengthy operations with cancel option,
> to specify different compression options for each BLOB field, to
> export table to SQL, EasyTable doesn't.
>
> 5) Scalability
> The database file of Absolute Database Multi-User Edition have the same format as in
> single-user edition, so you can easily switch to the multi-user if
> you will need to. Of course we will provide special upgrade price for
> upgrade from single-user edition to multi-user.
>
> 6) Reliability
> Absolute Database auto-detects database corruption caused by power
> loss during writing to database file and can automatically repair the
> database, neither EasyTable nor Accuracer have such possibility.
>
> Please feel free to write me if you have any questions.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Mark Witton mailto:sales@componentace.com
Reply from AidAim:
> Dear Peter Varan,
>
> Thank you for your interest in our products.
>
> About AidAim and ComponentAce
> -----------------------------
> ComponentAce is not a subsidiary company of AidAim Software LLC.
> Neither AidAim Software LLC, nor anybody of the people who work at
> AidAim has no part in ComponentAce.
>
> ComponentAce was founded by the members of AidAim Software developers
> team. They are just the guys worked at AidAim Software before they
> founded ComponentAce.
>
> ComponentAce is fully independent company and we (at AidAim) cannot
> say why they changed their goals and now develop databases instead of
> focus on the compression products as they said in their press-release.
>
> About database products
> -----------------------
> These guys take part in design and coding of our database products,
> EasyTable and Accuracer, and now they founded their own new company
> and released their own new system, Absolute, which is based on AidAim
> database technologies and includes some features of EasyTable,
> SQLMemTable and Accuracer.
>
> Just some facts for you to be sure who is the leader:
>
> 1. AidAm Software starts on-line sales of the database components with
> EasyTable in January 2001. ComponentAce was founded in September 2003.
> We are 3 years in developing and selling database components they are
> just now starting.
>
> 2. We have 3 database components: EasyTable, SQLMemTbale and
> Accuracer, even Single File System is more similar to database than to
> compression component. They have only compressions components and only
> started sales of AbsoluteDB.
>
> 3. Accuracer was released 10/23/2003 and Absolute was released two
> months late -- do not take into account that it is v.4 now -- they
> release bug-fix versions very often so I do not know what was the
> difference between v.1 and v.2 or between v.3 and v.4.
>
> 4. The first version of Accuracer (October 23, 2003) was multi-user
> version, we developed this product as multi-user database first of
> all. The multi-user version of AbsoluteDB, v.3.00, was released
> January 27, 2004 only, 3 months later. So Absolute is a local,
> single-user database and they just now have implemented multi-user
> superstructure.
>
> 5. Accuracer is the cross-platform database, we have Kylix version and
> have plans to develop .Net provider. I am not sure that Absolute will
> be cross-platform one day in the future -- they do not work to port it
> to Kylix and even have no such plans as I know.
>
> 6. Accuracer is a client-server database now. As I know they have no
> plans to develop client-server version yet.
>
> 7. Accuracer has ODBC Driver. Even our old product, EasyTable, has
> ODBC Driver. Trust me, I know these guys, Absolute will have ODBC
> Driver never, they do not wield such technology.
>
> 8. Some technical differences in brief:
> - Accuracer supports varchar fields while AbsoluteDB does not
> - AbsoluteDB does not allow to create records larger than database
> page size
> - AbsoluteDB uses our old EasyTable's encryption technologies (it does
> not provide encryption by keys and supports smaller set of encryption
> algorithms). Accuracer offers unmatched strong encryption. The
> difference is great like between EasyTable and Accuracer -- you can
> read the following material for details:
> http://www.aidaim.com/articles/Accuracer-EasyTable_features.php
>
> That's why their site and their documentation are a copy of ours in
> some parts.
>
> If you know any advantage of AbsoluteDB in comparison with Accuracer
> just inform me. We'll do the all to exceed it.
>
> Best regards,
> Ray Lahoy
> AidAim Software mailto:support@aidaim.com
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