Microsoft COM+ IMDB

<p>At <a href="/facts/TechEd/shDoM0AY">TechEd</a> 1999 conference during its rollout of <a href="/facts/Windows_2000/amJIt9gz">Windows 2000</a> Beta, <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a> introduced <a href="/facts/COM%2B/2DtIAufW">COM+</a> in-memory database (<a href="/facts/In-memory_database/Am2VvJs4">IMDB</a>) that provided an application with fast access to data through databases that supported <a href="/facts/OLE_DB/YjelpY3o">OLE DB</a> connectivity, without incurring the overhead associated with storing and accessing data to and from physical disks. "We're setting aside a cache of memory on the machine that's running your application for data from a database on another platform," says Michael Gross, product manager for COM+. "You'll be running your application on a Windows 2000 machine, but you may be actually accessing the data from an Oracle database on another platform."
</p><p>Microsoft did not intend to offer IMDB separately from COM+. "There are no current plans to productize the IMDB separately, or incorporate it into SQL Server in the near future," Gross says.  He noted then that SQL Server 6.5 and <a href="/facts/SQL_Server_7.0/xtxKIrun">SQL Server 7.0</a>—along with Oracle7, <a href="/facts/Oracle8/FHv5g732">Oracle8</a>, <a href="/facts/Sybase_Enterprise/eocfB6I6">Sybase Enterprise</a>, Informix 8, and Microsoft ADO—would be able to serve as back-end data stores for the IMDB. Microsoft's IMDB also supports the <a href="/facts/OLE_DB/YjelpY3o">OLE DB</a> for an <a href="/facts/ODBC/2dV2Fm5j">ODBC</a> provider.
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Microsoft COM+ IMDB