Codenamed Masala, Information Integrator’s public release follows tests by 120 IBM-picked companies, which tested more than 100 new features.
IBM claims Masala’s re-worked MQ-based replication architecture enables the software to double query performance while cutting the cost per processor in half. Masala is also capable of replicating 10,000 rows per second, IBM said.
MQ has not been used before in these ways, said director of information integration and IBM distinguished engineer Nelson Mattos.
WebSphere MQ provides a transport mechanism for replication, which means data can be personalized to suit specific business needs by configurating additional MQ message queues. Additionally, MQ provides a reliable delivery mechanism.
WebSphere MQ is also used for business integration, to publish events, supporting the concept of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). An event could include notifying an analyst when a financial stock hits a certain trading level.
MQ is the beautiful glue between the process and the application. We have the capability using MQ to use the same messaging infrastructure, Nelson said. He added customers could still take advantaged of Masala, without MQ running on their architectures, as the MQ-based components ship out of the box.
Other Masala features include an interface providing free text searches to query data, without the need to write searches in SQL. IBM claimed it’s been using free text queries with Masala since September 2003, across 320,000 customers running 80,000 queries a day. Also provided are MQ and JAIN adaptors for SAP, PeopleSoft and Siebel. Masala is due for launch at the end of this year.
