CData Software Partners with Redis Labs to Introduce New Redis Drivers for ODBC, JDBC & ADO.NET.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - November 1st, 2017 -- CData Software (www.cdata.com), a leading provider of standards-based drivers and data access solutions for real-time data integration today announced the availability of new ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET drivers for Redis, the widely adopted open source high-performance in-memory data store used as a database, cache or message broker. The result of a collaboration between CData Software and Redis Labs, the new Redis drivers offer seamless connectivity to any data structure stored in Redis open source and Redis Enterprise through industry standard driver interfaces.

Redis Labs is the home of open source Redis and commercial provider of Redis Enterprise, the world's most popular in-memory database platform for transactional, analytics and hybrid deployments. The high performance, true high availability, enhanced security and seamless scaling of Redis Enterprise enhance popular Redis use cases including high-speed transactions, job & queue management, user session stores, real-time data ingest, notifications, content caching and time-series data. Redis Enterprise is offered as a fully managed service in public clouds, in customer's virtual private clouds and as downloadable software.

"Customers are leveraging the incredible data access speeds of Redis to build the next generation of data-driven applications," said Amit Sharma, CEO at CData Software. "As one of the top in-memory datastores in use worldwide, applications are utilizing Redis for more than just caching. Our new drivers bridge the gap between data stored on Redis and BI, ETL, and Reporting solutions."

The new CData drivers for Redis open source and Redis Enterprise deliver several key innovations:

• Standards-Based Connectivity: The CData Drivers are universally accessible offering certified compatibility with the latest BI, ETL, and Reporting solutions including Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, MicroStrategy, Microsoft Excel, Informatica, SQL SSIS, & more.
• ANSI-92 SQL Support: The CData Drivers support a rich ANSI-92 SQL syntax across all drivers, deeply nested queries, and an extensive set of SQL filters and formulas.
• Full CRUD: The CData Drivers support full Create, Read, Update, and Delete capabilities.

"Through this exciting new partnership with CData, our customers get access to seamless, high performance, scalable and secure integrations with leading BI solutions such as Tableau, Microsoft PowerBI and Excel." said Rod Hamlin, VP of Global Alliances and Strategic Partnerships at Redis Labs. "We evaluated several solutions, and ultimately CData's complementary performance characteristics, rich query engine, and innovative design features made them an obvious choice for us to partner up."

The CData Redis Drivers are currently available in the following form factors:

• ODBC: Unicode-enabled 32/64-bit ODBC 3.8 compliant Driver for Windows, Mac, & Linux.
• JDBC: Pure Java Type 4/5 JDBC Drivers with JDBC 3.0 and JDBC 4.0 support.
• ADO.NET: 100% fully managed ADO.NET libraries with support for Entity Framework (EF 5 & 6), ADO.NET 2.0, LINQ to Datasets.

In addition, CData has also released a series of platform and application adapters for Redis, including SQL SSIS Components, BizTalk Adapters, Xamarin Data Providers, PowerShell Cmdlets, Excel Add-Ins, and more. A complete listing of CData Drivers and adapters available for Redis can be found online at https://www.cdata.com/drivers/redis/.

For more information about any of the CData Software products, visit www.cdata.com. Fully functional, 30-day trial versions of the new Redis Drivers are available for download from the company website at https://www.cdata.com/drivers/redis/download/.

About Redis Labs
Redis Labs, home of open source Redis, the world's fastest in-memory database platform, provides Redis Enterprise (Redis^e), as a cloud service and as downloadable software, to more than 7,500 enterprise customers. The high performance, true high availability and seamless scaling of Redis^e, are top-ranked by industry analysts, and power use cases such as high speed transactions, queuing, user session stores, and caching, in e-commerce, social, personalization, IoT, metering, fraud detection and other real-time applications. Redis, voted the most loved database, rated the #1 cloud database, #1 database on Docker, #1 NoSQL datastore, and fastest growing NoSQL database reduces application complexity, simplifies development, accelerates time to market and provides unprecedented flexibility to developers.

About CData
CData Software (www.cdata.com), is a leading provider of data access and connectivity solutions specializing in the development of standard drivers and data access technologies for real-time access to online or on-premise applications, databases, and web APIs. You can reach the company via email at info@cdata.com, online at www.cdata.com, or by calling US: (800) 235-7250 or International: (919) 928-5214.

CData and the CData Logo are trademarks of CData Software. All other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.