The embedded database developers choose
Trust the Zen family of databases—Zen Core, Zen Edge, Zen Enterprise, and Zen Cloud Server—for a small footprint, low maintenance, high-performance database management system.
Meeting embedded database challenges
Edge applications and devices increasingly rely on AI to improve automation and decisions – human and machine – in stand-alone, peer-to-peer, local network, cloud and hybrid environments. The underlying edge data management must leverage a variety of hardware, operating systems, networks, communications interfaces, and programming and scripting languages for applications that use these resources. Zen edge data management delivers against these broad and demanding requirements.
Simplicity
Single, secure, scalable architecture supports concurrent read and write, using NoSQL and SQL across popular embedded environments.
Speed
Faster than leading purpose-built databases at time-series, JSON-based or Blob document stores, and SQLite.
Security
Provides data encryption for data at rest and in transit.
Synchronization
Avoid ETL between devices, gateways, branch and cloud environments – improve speed, lower integration cost, and remove security vulnerabilities.
Friends don’t let friends use
flat files
ETL, data security, portability, indexing, time-stamping, and other features built-in to modern edge data management solutions no longer require a complex database that doesn’t fit your edge use case. With Zen you get the simplicity of file system APIs with the robust functionality of a real-time database.
Zen editions
Shared by all editions:
- Single modular architecture, code once, run anywhere.
- SQL and NoSQL APIs.
- Single data table/file size maximum of 64 TB.
- Zero ETL between Zen and PSQL ensures less integration and time to completion.
- AES-256 bit encryption for data at rest plus zero ETL avoids decryption between development and deployment.
Zen core
- For mobile/IoT devices.
- Dedicated DB Engine with NoSQL API and SQL.
- Embeds directly in apps as packaged libraries.
- Client and peer-to-peer.
- 7 MB footprint.
- Royalty-free development and deployment.
Zen edge
- Embed in edge gateways and complex machinery.
- Full client-server functionality.
- >100s of concurrent users.
- 50MB footprint.
Zen Enterprise
Zen workgroup for Windows
- Embed/bundle with ERP verticals, and other complex apps.
- >1000s of concurrent users for branch NS central office.
- 175MB footprint.
Zen cloud server
- Cloud-ready version of Zen Enterprise.
- Runs in VMs and containers.
- Embed/bundle in complex SaaS apps or managed services.
Zen: Zero-DBA, multi-model, multi-platform
Add-on software
Shared by all add-on software
- API from CLI or embeds directly in your application.
- Embeddable APIs and configurable dashboards for remote management.
- Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 support.
DataExchange
- Exchange data and two-way synchronization of Zen and PSQL databases.
- Backup and recovery to/from multiple remote replication sites.
- Built in 256-bit encryption.
- Separate replication event handler and replication engine ensure zero impact on operational databases.
Backup agent
- Backup operational Zen and PSQL databases.
- Works with all major 3rd party backup software.
- API for use embeds in your application.
- Maintains data integrity and continuity without service interruptions.
AuditMaster
- Generates logs of all DB events, delivering a detailed audit trail.
- No changes to the application needed.
- Query and alert capability configurable against specific compliance and security policies.
- Support diagnosis and data recovery of before/after images.
- Real-time support of operational Zen and PSQL databases.
Do you need to modernize your edge data management?
- Do you need to analyze and make real-time decisions at the point of action?
- Are you able to manage large sets of local and shared persistent data at the edge?
- Do you need to run on multiple OSes from Android/iOS to Windows/Linux?
- Do you use multiple programming and scripting languages to develop your edge applications?
- Do you support varied types of data: JSON, Blob, traditional structured, etc.?
- Are you struggling to support standalone, peer-to-peer, client-server, Internet/Intranet architectures?
- Do you operate as stand-alone when disconnected?
- Can you handle high-speed, multi-channel data collection and local machine learning inference?
Embedded database management for IoT and edge environments
Edge intelligent applications need to embed sophisticated data management so developers don’t have to become database managers. Here are some challenges, constraints, and issues to consider.
Zen python demo for facial recognition on a Jetson board
On a Jeff Fritz podcast, Tom Bates from Actian describes how he used Open Source ML routines and cameras to do real-time facial recognition detection and Zen DB storage on a Jetson.