Menai Corporation Product Reviews and Testimonials

Menai Corporation Product Reviews and Testimonials

Reviews

“One thing that stands out about Gamelon is that its design is based around a relatively simple concept which has been thoroughly thought through and implemented. It might have been easier to implement it as a storage medium for binary data only, but by allowing for extensions it has the potential to become an all-purpose method of storing data...

Gamelon’s elegant handling [of transactions] is one of the many examples of careful consideration that has gone into its design...

The major strengths of Gamelon lie in its cross-platform, language-independent nature, which gives it a potentially very wide scope of application. Its most obvious appeal will be to developers who want to explore alternatives to database engines or need compact data files, without losing critical features of relational databases such as indexing and transaction support. Once you have grasped the concepts behind Gamelon and produced the set of routines necessary to create and maintain your data in some specific format, it is very easy and flexible to use.”

Colin Hume, Gamelon Files Review, EXE: The Software Developers’ Magazine, April, 1997

"If you need a low-level, object-style database, this product is certainly worth considering. It provides a fairly complete library of functions to interact with data files at a minimal memory cost."

Larry Whipple, Test Drives, Data Based Advisor, January 1996.

"Luckily, I came across Menai Corp.'s Gamelon File I/O Library. Gamelon is for developers who need to implement custom file I/O within their applications. It provides a means of creating objects that store characterizing information with the data, letting applications query the file for its structure, and reducing the chance for misinterpretation of information within the file. The Gamelon File I/O Library gives you an object-based abstraction for the design and implementation of type-safe, platform-independent data files. Any one of its features could lessen the time it takes to create...my dream programmer's database.

"The Gamelon File I/O Library is easy to use, and the well-organized API makes sense. The library has great features like automatic multithreading support for object locking..."

George Shepherd, Hands On, Windows Tech Journal, October 1995.

"The word Gamelon sounds like it should be the name of Godzilla's archrival. Instead, it's the name of an object-oriented file access library for OS/2, Windows, and Windows NT that could probably get away with calling itself a full-fledged object-oriented database engine."

Rick Grehan, Code Talk, BYTE, January 1995.

Testimonials

"Unlike traditional database tools, Gamelon provides a flexible framework for file design and data access. It works for you rather than you working for it. Gamelon is only restricted by how you use it--it can do anything."

David Somers, Contract Systems Programmer, The Netherlands.

"Now that indexing has been added, the Gamelon File I/O Library gives us true object-oriented database management (including transaction processing), across multiple platforms with an amazingly small amount of code."

Jim Cooper, Managing Director, Research and Development, Information Sciences Group, Inc.

"Until now, implementing persistence meant buying a heavy duty OODBMS likeObjectStore, or a mid-level product like POET. The trouble with some of these OODBMS's is that classes are persistent only if derived from a single persistent class. If you want an application to allow users to define their own classes at run-time and not just class instances, then you incur the overhead of your own meta-data definition on top of that of the vendor's... Gamelon cuts through all this complexity and provides a simple API that lets you control how you store your data, without cutting back on the major benefits of object orientation.

"If you are embarking on a new project, prototyping your file storage using Gamelon could be one of the most useful things you could do."

Dhar Rawal, Sr. Systems Engineer, Waukesha Bearings Corporation.

To discover what BYTE called "the beauty of Gamelon", see our Product Page.

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