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External Index and Query (EIQ) Products™ are superior federated adapters that are accessed through standard drivers and SQL, and are designed for virtual real-time data access, integration, sharing and interoperability

Each of the EIQ Products are intended to accommodate almost any data management situation and solution, including data access and integration, customer data integration (CDI)-master data management (MDM), link mapping and link analysis, business intelligence (BI) and analytics.

The four EIQ Products currently offered are:

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EIQ SuperAdapters™ for data source access with reference data model mapping
A superior alternative to conventional federated adapters, offered on a data source basis; includes index and results data
cleansing, transformation and standardization, reference data model mapping and associated query transformation.  Results from an EIQ SuperAdapter are produced in  the same reference data model format as results data from other EIQ SuperAdapters, each accessing individual data sources.  WhamTech EIQ Federated Server sub-middleware and/or other third-party middleware products can combine results as needed. 
 

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EIQ TurboChargers™ for data source access without reference data model mapping
A query enhancer that resides between an application or a conventional federated adapter, and a data source system, similar to an EIQ SuperAdapter, but without the ability to transform queries and map results to a reference data model.  Indexes and results data are cleansed, transformed and standardized.
 

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EIQ Adapters™ for conventional data source access without indexes, but with reference data model mapping
In the situation where none of the 12 change data capture (CDC) options are available to build and maintain indexes, EIQ Adapters can be used and are similar to conventional adapters.  Queries are submitted to, and transformed by EIQ Adapters; however, queries are submitted to, and executed by, data sources.  Results data can be cleansed, transformed and standardized.
 

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EIQ Federated Servers for other EIQ Product integration - no direct data source access
A virtual data integration, sharing and interoperability sub-middleware query management system, to access multiple data sources each of which must have an associated EIQ SuperAdapter, EIQ TurboCharger or EIQ Adapter product.  EIQ Federated Server does not have its own indexes, query processing or results transformation, but can distribute queries and combine results data from other EIQ Products.  EIQ Federated Servers can access other EIQ Federated Servers as though they are single data sources and can be independently configurable, allowing for high performance, scalability, load balancing, failover and redundancy.

The following table lists the major feature differences among the products:

Feature EIQ SuperAdapter EIQ TurboCharger EIQ Adapter EIQ Federated Server
Standard driver/Web service access + + + +
ANSI SQL + + + +
Basic pass-through security + + + +
Works with multiple data sources (-)
Only through ATTACH*
(-)
Only through ATTACH*
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Through other EIQ Products
Sold on a data source basis + + + -
User-level data source access + + + +
Through other EIQ Products
Index cleansing and transformation + + - -
Reference data model and metadata + - + +
Query transformation from reference data model and metadata to indexes + - (+)
Only to data source indexes
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Results data cleansing and transformation (does not necessarily include standardization) + + + -
Advanced security on reference data model and metadata (available soon) + - + +

*ATTACH allows disparate data source indexes to be integrated as though a single set of indexes, similar to merging schemas; however, this is not a highly scalable solution and requires a higher level of cooperation among data source owners

Other legacy products were offered in the past and are generally no longer offered as products; however, many of the technologies have been, and can be, used in the current EIQ Products offering.

Generally, no-longer-offered legacy products are as follows:
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Database - D the Data Language and, more recently, Thunderbolt relational database management system (RDBMS)

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Search (enterprise, specialized search/research, and Web)

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Utilities (Seismic Data Administration Tool (SDAT)™ and 64-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) algorithm for a 1 in 18 billion collision probability)

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