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Suzanne Rose
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Have a robust reporting tool that can slice and dice data 100 different ways? Good luck finding a checkbox driver to support it.
Checkbox drivers (drivers built with the lowest possible level of functionality) are like your grandpa’s station wagon—they get you from point A to Point B, but do so without the performance or luxury of a sports car. No one would want to take grandpa’s station wagon to the racetrack, you would lose the race. In the same way, free or cheap checkbox drivers will give you basic functionality, but will not allow full support and performance for complex, flexible reporting tools.
You Get What You Pay For
For fast performance and a deep feature set, you need an enterprise-grade data connector. This is what allows full functionality to all your data stores.
Let’s take a look at the depth of the DataDirect Connect for ODBC SQL Server vs. a common checkbox driver.
Now let’s look at the real-world scalability of our driver versus the competition.
On the left side, you have the number of threads simulating the number of users. On top is the number of virtual machines used. The data in the middle represents rows/second. You can see that our competition needs 3 virtual machines to match just 1 of ours.
If Functionality Isn’t Enough
So, back to grandpa’s station wagon. If that ancient artifact blows a gasket, who is going to know how to fix it or want to help? Not many people. With checkbox drivers, they do not give you the live, technical assistance you may need. We have eight support centers worldwide with ten different languages spoken.
On average, each sales engineer has seven years of experience and is industry certified in technical support. All of our engineers combined have over 400 years of experience. That’s longer than America has been a country!
Many checkbox drivers are also Windows-only or only available on one or two platforms. We all know that you need more functionality than that. Our drivers support a wide variety of platforms including many flavors of Unix and Linux.
Ditch the Station Wagon
If you have invested in a great tool, you deserve a great driver to get the most out of your data. Don’t settle for a driver that limits your functionality and has no support team behind it. Partner with us and our experienced team is here 24/7 to give you the best data connectivity experience possible. Your success is our success.
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Checkbox drivers (drivers built with the lowest possible level of functionality) are like your grandpa’s station wagon—they get you from point A to Point B, but do so without the performance or luxury of a sports car. No one would want to take grandpa’s station wagon to the racetrack, you would lose the race. In the same way, free or cheap checkbox drivers will give you basic functionality, but will not allow full support and performance for complex, flexible reporting tools.
You Get What You Pay For
For fast performance and a deep feature set, you need an enterprise-grade data connector. This is what allows full functionality to all your data stores.
Let’s take a look at the depth of the DataDirect Connect for ODBC SQL Server vs. a common checkbox driver.
Now let’s look at the real-world scalability of our driver versus the competition.
On the left side, you have the number of threads simulating the number of users. On top is the number of virtual machines used. The data in the middle represents rows/second. You can see that our competition needs 3 virtual machines to match just 1 of ours.
If Functionality Isn’t Enough
So, back to grandpa’s station wagon. If that ancient artifact blows a gasket, who is going to know how to fix it or want to help? Not many people. With checkbox drivers, they do not give you the live, technical assistance you may need. We have eight support centers worldwide with ten different languages spoken.
On average, each sales engineer has seven years of experience and is industry certified in technical support. All of our engineers combined have over 400 years of experience. That’s longer than America has been a country!
Many checkbox drivers are also Windows-only or only available on one or two platforms. We all know that you need more functionality than that. Our drivers support a wide variety of platforms including many flavors of Unix and Linux.
Ditch the Station Wagon
If you have invested in a great tool, you deserve a great driver to get the most out of your data. Don’t settle for a driver that limits your functionality and has no support team behind it. Partner with us and our experienced team is here 24/7 to give you the best data connectivity experience possible. Your success is our success.
Try Now
Continue reading...