New Features and Enhancements in Ingres 2006

This section contains the following topics:

What Is Ingres 2006?

Ingres 2006 is an enterprise-class open source database. Ingres 2006 was previously released by Computer Associates as Ingres r3.

Features Included in Open Source

The following Ingres components are contributed to the open source community:

Ingres DBMS and associated database administration tools
Embedded SQL precompilers
Character-based querying, reporting, and application development tools
Connectivity components, including ODBC, JDBC, and the .Net Data Provider
Ingres Distributed Option
Ingres Replicator Option
Ingres Web Deployment Option
TP monitors, including CICS, Tuxedo, and Encina

Features Not Included in Open Source

Features not included in the open source edition are as follows:

Support for spatial objects
B1 security

The spatial object library is available for download from www.ingres.com if you have a valid technical support contract with Ingres Corporation.

While the source for the Visual DBA suite is not contributed to the open source community, the suite is included in the Ingres for Windows download.

The following members of the Ingres product family are not contributed to open source and continue to be available for purchase from Ingres Corporation:

OpenROAD
Enterprise Access
EDBC products