Pervasive DataRush 4.0 - Readme
General Release - March 2009

These release notes may supersede information in the rest of the documentation. The Pervasive DataRush web site may also have new information on using this product.

This document may have updates. Check for a newer version for download from the web site.

License Restrictions

The trial license is not for production use, not for resale, and not for commercial use.

For details, see license.txt in the installation.

Pervasive DataRush 4.0 Release

These release notes cover the following topics:

System Requirements

Please review these requirements before running Pervasive DataRush.

Operating Systems and Hardware

This release has been tested on the following platforms and environments.

System
Supported Versions
Hardware
Microsoft Windows
2003 Server R2 SP1
XP SP2
Server 2008, SP1
x86
x86-64
HP-UX
11
Itanium
PA-RISC
IBM AIX 5L
5.3
PowerPC
Mac OS X
10
Intel
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise
9.3
10
x86
x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4
x86
x86-64
Sun Solaris Enterprise
10
UltraSPARC T2
x86
x86-64

Performance

Minimum satisfactory performance requires the following:

Java

Run Pervasive DataRush on the latest versions of the following Java releases. A JDK is required rather than a JRE.

Where possible, Sun Java is recommended.

In all cases, 64-bit Java is preferred.

Permissions and Privileges

Administrator privileges are required on your local machine to modify the system path environment variable.

Additional Tools

The following tools are useful but are not required for Pervasive DataRush application development:

Installing and Configuring Pervasive DataRush

This topic covers the following procedures:

To install Pervasive DataRush

Allow at least 30 MB free disk space for installation.

  1. Download the .zip archive.
  2. Extract the archive contents to an installation directory.
  3. Extracted files appear in InstallDir/datarush-4.0.2.

  4. Unix only. Run the following commands to reset permissions:
  5. chmod a+x InstallDir/datarush-4.0.2/samples/runsamples

    chmod a+x InstallDir/datarush-4.0.2/bin/dr

To set the license file

  1. Obtain a license file from Pervasive Software.
  2. A trial license can be downloaded from the Pervasive DataRush web site.

  3. Copy the license file to InstallDir/datarush-4.0.2.

To add Pervasive DataRush to the Path environment variable

Required for Windows, optional for Unix systems.

  1. Log on as local administrator.
  2. Add the Pervasive DataRush /bin directory to the Path environment variable.

To configure Java for Pervasive DataRush

The Pervasive DataRush bin directory contains the batch script dr.bat and the shell script dr. Both files begin with settings for JVM location and memory usage.

To verify Pervasive DataRush installation

  1. On the machine where you did the installation, open a new command prompt.
  2. Run the command dr --version or dr -v.
  3. On Windows the return should resemble the following:

    Product version: Build 4.0.x.xx on YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS PM
    Library version: Build 4.0.x.x on YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS PM
    Java version: 1.6.0_11 in <JAVA_HOME>\jre

    Pervasive DataRush is now installed.

To configure run-time logging

Logging is configured in the file InstallDir/datarush-4.0.2/conf/logger.properties.

In this properties file, see “File Handler Logging Settings.”

Documentation

Documentation for this release is provided in DataRush Developer’s Guide, command line help, Javadoc, and comments in the property files for the samples.

Samples

Once you have installed Pervasive DataRush, we recommend that you try the working sample applications provided with the installation. For each example, all needed files are in InstallDir/datarush-4.0.2/samples.

Product installation includes the following sample applications:

The samples directory also includes Javadoc for the samples.

As a convenience, the installation includes the batch script runsamples.bat for Windows and the shell script runsamples for Unix. Running this script in the samples directory executes all samples and generates output and logging files.

Technical Support

Online community forums provide general customer support and answers to technical questions posted by developers who build and embed Pervasive DataRush applications. Users both inside and outside Pervasive participate in these forums.

Telephone support is available during normal business hours US Central Time:


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