BlackRay – The Open Source Data Engine

The BlackRay Development Team is pleased to announce the release of BlackRay 0.10.0 for Linux, Solaris and Mac OS.

SoftMethod likes to thank all external contributors for helping to make this release possible. Special thanks go to Mike Alexeev and Souvik Roy, who dedicated a lot of their spare time to the development of BlackRay.

Besides various bug fixes, BlackRay 0.10 introduces several changes to existing features as well as some new features:

• This release introduces support for the postgres protocol. You can now use  your postgreSQL JDBC/ODBC drivers to connect to BlackRay.
• The SQL parser has undergone some heavy changes. SQL parsing is now handled on the server side.
• Initial support for python language bindings has been added.
• Usage of the command-line tools has been simplified.
• The syntax of the configuration file has also changed.
• We’ve added some more examples to demonstrate the usage of the language bindings.

For a full list of changes please have a look at the file CHANGES included in the distribution.

For installation instructions please have a look at the BlackRay documentation, available as PDF and HTML (multi- or single-page version).

The following files are included in this release:

Sources:
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_src.tar.gz (Third-party sources)
blackray_0.10.0_src.tar.gz (BlackRay sources)

Documentation:
blackray-manual.pdf (BlackRay Manual, pdf version)
blackray-manual-html (BlackRay Manual, html version)
blackray-manual-htmlsingle (BlackRay Manual, html single-page version)

Binaries (including Third-Party libraries):
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-i686.tar.gz (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.tar.gz (Linux 64-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_MacOS-i686.tar.gz (MacOS 32-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_SunOS-i386.tar.gz (Solaris 64-bit)

Debian packages (third-party dependencies):
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_Linux-i686.deb (Linux 32-bit)
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.deb (Linux 64-bit)

Debian packages (BlackRay):
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-i686.deb (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.deb (Linux 64-bit)

RPM packages (third-party dependencies):
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_Linux-i686.rpm (Linux 32-bit)
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.rpm (Linux 64-bit)

RPM packages (BlackRay):
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-i686.rpm (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.rpm (Linux 64-bit)

Solaris packages (third-party):
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_SunOS-i386.pkg.gz (Solaris 64-bit, gzipped)

Solaris packages (BlackRay):
blackray_0.10.0_SunOS-i386.pkg.gz (Solaris 64-bit, gzipped)

All of us here at SoftMethod are very excited about the initial source and binary release of BlackRay. Several months of dedication towards turning a piece of code into an open source ready project. Special thanks go to Thomas, our Chief Technologist for BlackRay.

The PDF manual can be found here, and this is the  sourceforge download page for this release. This release, blackray-0.9.0 is the initial open-source release of the BlackRay Data Engine. The following files are available in this release:

Sources:

blackray-thirdparty_0.9.0_src.tar.gz (Third-party sources)
blackray_0.9.0_src.tar.gz (BlackRay sources)

Binaries (including Third-Party libraries):

blackray_0.9.0_Linux-i686.tar.gz (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.9.0_Linux-x86_64.tar.gz (Linux 64-bit)
blackray_0.9.0_MacOS-i686.tar.gz (MacOS 32-bit)
blackray_0.9.0_SunOS-i386.tar.gz (Solaris 64-bit)

Debian packages (third-party dependencies):

blackray-thirdparty_0.9.0_Linux-i686.deb (Linux 32-bit)
blackray-thirdparty_0.9.0_Linux-x86_64.deb (Linux 64-bit)

Debian packages (BlackRay):

blackray_0.9.0_Linux-i686.deb (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.9.0_Linux-x86_64.deb (Linux 64-bit)

RPM packages (third-party dependencies):

blackray-thirdparty_0.9.0_Linux-i686.rpm (Linux 32-bit)
blackray-thirdparty_0.9.0_Linux-x86_64.rpm (Linux 64-bit)

RPM packages (BlackRay):

blackray_0.9.0_Linux-i686.rpm (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.9.0_Linux-x86_64.rpm (Linux 64-bit)

Solaris packages (third-party):

blackray-thirdparty_0.9.0_SunOS-i386.pkg (Solaris 64-bit)

Solaris packages (BlackRay):

blackray_0.9.0_SunOS-i386.pkg (Solaris 64-bit)