In C4ISTAR, Objectivity/DB is currently used for applications that are critical to assisting the war fighter. Its superior capabilities are harnessed for electronic warfare and weapons guidance applications, and similar environments that benefit from Objectivity/DB’s unprecedented ability to power applications that collect, fuse and process Multi-INT data.

With Objectivity/DB, the leading fully distributed DB for data fusion applications, national military organizations and defense contractors can open the door to new levels of performance in applications for C4ISTAR.

In tasks that rely on streams of complex data from multiple sources — such as war gaming, weapons design, training simulations, and signal and imagery processing — Objectivity/DB proves itself superior to all other DBMSs, outperforming other database solutions by 1,000 times when faced with the hardest tasks.

Objectivity/DB allows your advanced applications to transform continuous flows of data from multiple sources into real-time intelligence. Designing your innovative software with the power of Objectivity/DB allows for:

• the most precise data monitoring, analysis and response
• the most effective real-time performance
• the best capacity to handle complex data and its complex inter-relationships from multiple sources and present it in a single logical view
• easy, accurate scalability without loss of performance

Objectivity/DB is already a key partner for top military agencies and integrators including L3 Communications, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and many others.

BUSINESS RATIONALE

For collecting, processing and correlating event data in order to provide the most precise optimization of a system, Objectivity/DB is the most effective data platform available. Objectivity/DB outperforms all other database management systems in its ability to scale without loss of performance, and to manage complex data and their inter-relationships in a real time environment.

Challenge and Solution:

The third-largest U.S. defense contractor had a need for a complex, mission-critical interactive analysis involving billions of objects. What’s more, there was no existing methodology for this complex analysis, so any tool developed would have to be able to change on the fly as the methodology was fine tuned.

Before entering a design phase, the government asked for a study to prove that the analysis was possible at all. Relational databases were ruled out immediately, unable to perform the task. Finally, Objectivity/DB and a second ODBMS were evaluated head to head for ingest rate, analysis (speed and accuracy) and space consumption.

The Objectivity/DB Solution:

“Objectivity was the clear winner,” says Northrop Grumman’s David Capka. Objectivity/DB was unsurpassed in the hard criteria, and also came out on top in the intangibles: Capka points out that Objectivity provided support throughout the process like a partner, not a supplier. Today, after five years of run time in this application, Objectivity/DB’s performance has surpassed all the test criteria, the project has scaled beyond the original design goals without trouble, and there has been no down time whatsoever due to the database.

Counter-terrorism analysts needed an application to compile and analyze HUMINT – intelligence that comes from human sources – with an end goal of generating actionable information. THREADS was the proposed application, and its developers set out to find the best database management solutions for the complex task.

The Objectivity/DB Solution:

Having already used Objectivity/DB to create ASA, a similar intelligence tool, the developers knew from first-hand experience that Objectivity/DB allowed them faster development and proven scalability, among other advantages. Nonetheless, they created a performance study, pitting Objectivity/DB against a leading relational database management system (RDBMS).

The databases were tested for speed and accuracy in data insertion, messaging, EEIs and deep queries. In every test, Objectivity/DB matched or beat the RDBMS. In deep queries, Objectivity/DB was 25 times faster. Objectivity/DB was the clear choice for the THREADS project.