Snowflake Software has announced the availability of the new Enterprise Edition release of GO Loader. GO Loader is Snowflake Software's premier product for designing and building Oracle databases from content delivered in Geography Markup Language (GML).

GO Loader Enterprise Edition adds to the functionality of GO Loader Standard Edition with specific features designed to make it highly suitable for the very largest of datasets, including national coverage of OS MasterMap™. Enterprise Edition's additional features include support for spatial partitioning of database tables (allowing very large data volumes to be rapidly loaded and queried), spatial clustering of data, and loading via Oracle SQL*Loader format for even greater speed (in addition to loading via JDBC).

This new release of Enterprise Edition coincides with an upgrade to Standard Edition with both editions now including numerous enhancements and new features:

• Enhanced support for advanced features in GML schema, further extending GO Loader's ability to handle a very wide range of datasets without any customisation.
• Support for feature associations
• Improved project management
• Improved and extended command line control
• Numerous GUI enhancements and a GUI new look and feel
• Support for feature archiving during change only update, enabling date based history to be queried and viewed using Oracle views
• Support for parallel spatial index builds and Oracle batching
• Numerous performance improvements

Ian Painter, Managing Director of Snowflake Software says:

"The release of GO Loader Enterprise Edition and the upgrade to Standard Edition positions GO Loader to be the one of the top GML tools on the market. We've put several man years of effort into GO Loader and our customers and partners are really reaping the benefits of our technology and innovation. We are particular pleased with the performance of GO Loader Enterprise Edition, and our most recent performance tests show that its possible to build a national coverage OS MasterMap database (all 417,827,201 features) in under 11 days using only an entry level single processor desktop PC. Using GO Loader on realistic multiprocessor production hardware our customers will start to see load times for national coverage OS MasterMap coming down to just a few days!"

About GO Loader

GO Loader is Snowflake's premier product for designing and building Oracle Spatial and Locator databases from content delivered in the Geography Markup Language (GML). GO Loader provides easy to use graphical interfaces that guide the user through all aspects of the database lifecycle covering: logical and physical data modelling, table creation, partitioning, data load, indexing and archiving. GO Loader is unique in the fact that its a generic GML tool that works with any GML2.1 schema without requiring software change or reliance on bespoke lookup files for any new GML datasets.

As well as being a generic GML tool, GO Loader is the ideal choice for OS MasterMap users as it includes specific support for duplicate removal, change only update and feature archiving. GO Loader supports all current OS MasterMap layers and due to its generic nature won't need upgrading for any future layers or new GML datasets, as a result choosing GO Loader is both a cost effective and future proofed choice for businesses.

To find out more about GO Loader and follow the new interactive Walkthrough demonstration, visit the GO Loader homepage
http://www.snowflakesoftware.co.uk/goloader

To find out about the free GO Loader 60 day Evaluation currently on offer visit
http://www.snowflakesoftware.co.uk/products/goloader/eval.htm

To arrange for a demonstration, or to enquire about pricing or licencing please email:
goloader@snowflakesoftware.co.uk