Sabre Holdings, a world leader in the travel marketplace, was looking for an open system solution to provide real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites. The challenge was processing Origination and Destination, also known as Airline Inventory, which requires massive transactional throughput. Relational technology was not a good fit for this task. Sabre was looking to migrate from an expensive and proprietary IBM Mainframe System, TPF, to an open system solution using an object-oriented design approach to run its SabreSonic Inventory System.

Siemens Industry Automation was tasked with providing a scalable solution for the automation of batch processes in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food & beverage industry. The solution needed to ensure high product quality, production performance over time, complete traceability of production, quick response to market conditions, and efficient use of production equipment. The challenge was to find a database technology that would optimally match the requirements of the SIMATIC® BATCH program design, which provides an object-oriented view on models, procedures, and recipes for comprehensive batch processes. The system needed to be stable, performant, and capable of handling large database files up to double-digit Gigabytes in size. It also needed to provide fast and reliable real-time access to prevent any significant delay, failure, or shutdown that could potentially affect product quantity and quality.

Telecom Bretagne, a prestigious graduate engineering school in France, was tasked with developing a French validator and demonstrator system for the UsiXML project, which is based on the European Maritime Surveillance project. The challenge was to develop a database technology that could provide both the objects of the simulation and the operational information captured during the experimental or effective mission. The system needed to integrate various autonomous surveillance applications, tactile surfaces, and sensor systems, including maritime search and rescue, traffic monitoring, fishing inspections, and maritime border surveillance.