Virtuoso Universal Server
4.5
Data Management and
Integration
Reviewer’s Guide
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Table of Contents
1 Preface.............................................................................................. 3
1.1 Objective........................................................................................ 3
1.2 System Requirements.................................................................... 3
1.2.1 Software....................................................................................... 3
1.2.2 Operating Systems and Browsers......................................................... 3
1.3 Installation.................................................................................... 3
2 Virtuoso Universal
Server................................................................... 4
2.1 Introduction.................................................................................. 4
2.1.1 Figure 2 - Virtuoso Conceptual Architecture including:............................... 4
2.1.2 Figure 2 - Virtuoso Conceptual Architecture............................................ 4
2.1.3 Enterprise Data Integration................................................................ 4
2.1.4 Web
Services Composition................................................................. 4
2.1.5 Process
Integration.......................................................................... 4
3 Enterprise Data
Integration (EDI)...................................................... 5
3.1 What Is This?................................................................................ 5
3.1.1
Virtuoso’s Cost-Effective route to the Real-Time
Enterprise........................ 5
3.1.2 Benefits of Virtuoso for EDI............................................................... 5
3.2 The Value Proposition.................................................................... 5
3.3 Exploiting Value Proposition......................................................... 6
3.3.1 Virtual Database (VDB) for Heterogeneous SQL Data............................... 6
3.3.2 Attaching/Linking ODBC Datasources.................................................... 6
3.3.3 ODBC Datasources and Heterogeneous Replication................................... 8
3.3.4 Command Line Invocation................................................................ 12