The agile and secure platform for ontology-driven application development
Develop applications faster, modify them live, and ensure data integrity without the complexities of traditional databases
Problem/Solution:
The landscape of application development and data management has inherent complexities. Since the foundational principles laid down by pioneers like Charles Babbage, the core functions of computing remain unchanged. Collecting, Storing, Manipulating, and Presenting information.
However, the tools and methodologies employed to realise these functions have often presented significant hurdles. Traditional approaches frequently involve intricate database schemas, procedural coding, and a separation between application logic and data structure. This leads to protracted development cycles and increased maintenance burdens. UNIBASE offers a paradigm shift by introducing a platform that seamlessly integrates these aspects.
UNIBASE provides the ability to describe how fundamental computing functions relate to one another, and a powerful tool capable of directly utilising these descriptions.
By adding a semantic layer, UNIBASE fundamentally alters the application development process, moving beyond the direct translation of data, to understanding the nature of the data itself and its relationships.This innovative approach addresses the core complexities of traditional systems, offering a more streamlined and efficient path to building robust applications.
Key Benefits:
UNIBASE provides significant advantages across the entire application lifecycle. Experience a dramatic acceleration in development speed with a platform that offers at least one order of magnitude productivity increase compared to traditional methods.
The enhanced efficiency allows teams to bring innovative solutions to market faster. Unlike systems that require planned downtime for modifications, UNIBASE empowers developers to modify live applications without interrupting working users, ensuring business continuity. Furthermore, UNIBASE significantly reduces the reliance on specialised database administrators for many routine tasks, streamlining operations and potentially lowering costs. The platform’s design incorporates internal consistency checks that inherently protect applications and users from corrupt data and data definitions, ensuring a high degree of reliability and security.
Built from the ground up for agile and secure development, UNIBASE provides a robust foundation for creating modern applications. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, UNIBASE automates many tasks typically performed by programmers, such as optimising database record retrieval and determining the sequence of calculations, further enhancing productivity and simplifying the development process.
This combination of features translates to faster development, reduced operational overheads, enhanced reliability, and a more agile approach to application management.
Why UNIBASE?
UNIBASE stands apart through its innovative core technologies, designed to overcome the limitations of conventional database systems.
At its heart lies a semantic layer, a crucial advancement that allows UNIBASE to understand the meaning and relationships within data, rather than just its structure.
This semantic understanding is exemplified in the comparison between SQL joins and Unibase associations. While a SQL join is a mathematical operation combining data from two tables, a UNIBASE association describes the inherent relationship between tables, enabling the UNIBASE engine to intelligently retrieve related attributes as needed. This goes beyond simple joins, as the engine comprehends one-to-many and unique relationships, treating them accordingly.
UNIBASE recognises the semantic differences even within data types, understanding that not all numbers are equal (e.g., counters vs. quantities). This nuanced understanding leads to more reliable and intuitive data handling.
UNIBASE employs a novel associative database technology, representing the next generation beyond current database structures. Unlike traditional databases where the programmer explicitly manages file operations, UNIBASE’s associative database is active, meaning it can automatically read related records and perform necessary calculations and optimisations based on defined associations. The programmer provides a specification of what is required, and Unibase autonomously decides how to achieve it.
Another distinguishing feature is calculated attributes. Unlike stored procedures in traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) like Oracle, UNIBASE’s calculated attributes are expressions involving attributes in the current and associated tables.
These attributes are not stored but are computed on demand, offering a dynamic and flexible way to derive information without the overhead of stored procedures.
Calculated attributes can also be used to specify associations and can be seamlessly incorporated into reports as if they were stored attributes, marking a significant departure from conventional database systems.
These core technological differences empower UNIBASE to deliver enhanced reliability, faster development cycles, and lower maintenance costs, setting it apart from traditional database solutions.
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