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Why OpenSplice DDS?

Whether you are looking for an advanced messaging technology to deploy in your next project, or you are looking to replace an existing technology with a better one for reducing latency and increasing throughput, or if you are looking to the best way for maximizing your ROI, OpenSplice DDS is the one, and only, answer. Below are the three key motivations that rationalize why.

Motivation #1: The Best Messaging Technology

OpenSplice DDS stands out from the messaging technology crowd because of some unique and remarkable characteristics in the features, performance, and scalability provided.

Data Modeling. Differently from the majority of messaging technologies which treat messages flowing in the system as blobs of dark matter, OpenSplice DDS supports the concept of a distributed relational model. Thus, in OpenSplice DDS, publishers and subscribers produce and consume bits and pieces of a distributed relational model over which SQL expressions can be used by subscribers to express local and continuous queries.

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Quality of Service (QoS). OpenSplice DDS provides a wide set of QoS Policies that allow tuning and configuration of all the aspects related to resource usage, availability, and temporal constraints. The rich set of supported QoS enables OpenSplice DDS to be tuned for maximum performance over an extremely wide set of use case and deployment scenarios, ranging from embedded systems to system of systems.

Performance. OpenSplice DDS can distribute over 3 million market data updates per second, while retaining stability, reliability and latency below 60 micro-sec, on commodity multi-core PC hardware and 1Gbps Ethernet. OpenSplice DDS also features negligible inter-core and inter-processor communication latency thanks to its shared memory architecture.

Open Source and Innovative. Open Source and innovation often go hand in hand, the reason being that Open Source projects provide a chance for Lead Users to engage early-on in lead-user innovations. This ensures that the technology remains focused on solving effectively user problems, while at the same time continuously extending its potential.

Standards Based and Interoperable. OpenSplice DDS provides an API layer compliant with the OMG Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS) v1.2 and a wire protocol compliant with the OMG Data Distribution Service Interoperability v2.1. This standards compliance guarantees application portability as well as seamless interoperability between implementations of the same standard.

Platform Support. OpenSplice DDS is available on most of the enterprise Operating Systems, such as, Linux, Windows, AIX, and Solaris, along with the leading RTOS, such as, VxWorks, INTEGRITY, etc. The OpenSplice DDS API is available in C, C++, Java, and C#.

Field Proven. OpenSplice DDS is field proven in many different deployments in mission- and business-critical systems, ranging from Automated Trading, Air Traffic Control and Management, Naval Systems, to SCADA.

Motivation #2: Best Pool of Talent

Thought Leadership. The OpenSplice DDS team features some of the most well known thought leaders in distributed real-time systems in the world. This pool of experts is continuously engaged in making our clients successful and creating the technology of the future.

Domain Experts. Along with thought leaders, the OpenSplice DDS team also includes many domain experts with decades of experience in fields such as Air-Traffic Management, Naval Systems, Real-Time Systems, etc.

Motivation #3: The Best Value

Minimizing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The OpenSplice DDS subscription model is designed to provide a very sensible reduction of the TCO for your middleware infrastructure. This is particularly important in todays climate due to the renewed attention to technology expenditure raised by the recent financial crisis.

Controlled Cash Flow. Traditional software licenses have a very cash-flow unfriendly nature as they pose the biggest part of investment at the very beginning of a project life-cycle. Considering the current credit crunch, we have worked hard to devise a new licensing model for OpenSplice DDS. Based on yearly subscriptions, the new OpenSplice DDS pricing model is very cash-flow friendly and ensures that you can exploit the full power of this disruptive technology from day one.