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BCS White Papers are grouped into the following categories:

• Database Extensions
• Elections Geography
• Seafloor Observatories

Database Extensions

• Using IBM Informix on a workstation with DBXten.pdf
  
  Some recent test results that dramatically illustrate how DBXten can improve database performance, even on a modest office workstation!
• Impact of DBXten on IBM Informix Performance.pdf
  
  Results of benchmarking DBXten on a large IBM System x configuration at the IBM Innovation Center in San Mateo, California.
• PostgreSQL Performance is Enhanced with DBXten.pdf
  
  Some recent test results from using PostgreSQL equipped with DBXten.
• Development of DataBlades for Managing Scientific Data.pdf
  
  This was presented at the 2010 International Informix Users Group meeting in Kansas City.
• An introduction to BCS database products for scientists_English.pdf
  
  An introduction to BCS products for “Making Databases Scientist-Friendly.”
• An introduction to BCS database products for scientists_Mandarin.pdf
  
  BCS产品介绍 --建立研究人员易用的数据库
• Why don't scientists use databases.pdf
  
  Reasons that we've heard for scientists avoiding databases ... And our response.
• BCS Speeds Access DataBlade.pdf
  
  IBM Customer Success Story: BCS speeds access to gridded data 100-fold with IBM Informix Dynamic Server.
• DBXten Promo.pdf
  
  Brochure for DBXten.
• DBXten.pdf
  
  One page description for DBXten.
• Flat Files vs. BCS Database Extensions.pdf
  
  Report comparing the direct use of flat files (in NetCDF-3 format) with extractions from a PostgesSQL database containing the same file information: Managing and Extracting Gridded Data: Flat Files or BCS Database Extensions?
• Grid DataBlade Promo.pdf
  
  Brochure for the BCS Grid DataBlade.
• Gridded Data in Databases.pdf
  
  Article: Storing and Manipulating Gridded Data in Databases.
• Managing Scientific Data Efficiently.pdf
  
  BCS-IBM Webinar: Managing Scientific Data Efficiently in a DBMS.
• ORDBMS Applications at BCS.pdf
  
  Article: Applications of Object Relational Database Management Systems at BCS.
• DBXten_Programmer_Guide_IBM_Informix_Version.pdf
  
  DBXten Programmer's Guide - IBM Informix Linux Version
• DBXten_Programmer_Guide_PostgreSQL_Version.pdf
  
  DBXten Programmer's Guide - PostgreSQL Linux Version
• DaL_Users_Guide_IBM_Informix_Version.pdf
  
  DaL User's Guide - IBM Informix Version
• DaL_Users_Guide_PostgreSQL_Version.pdf
  
  DaL User's Guide - PostgreSQL Version
• Grid_Extension_Programmer_Guide_PostgreSQL_Version.pdf
  
  BCS Grid Extension for PostgreSQL, Linux Version - Programmer's Guide
• Grid_DataBlade_Programmer_Guide_IBM_Informix_Version.pdf
  
  BCS Grid DataBlade for IBM Informix, Linux Version - Programmer's Guide

Elections Geography

• Automated Redistribution Functional Specification Version 1.1.pdf
  Description of the automated redistribution functionality in the INDEA Data Manager.
• IDM User Guide.pdf
  
  INDEA Data Manager User's Guide.
• IDS-Barrodale.pdf
  
  Barrodale's Digital Electoral Atlas and IBM Informix Dynamic Server empowers Elections BC's redistricting project.

Seafloor Observatories

• Fast and Efficient Storage of Seafloor Observatory Data.pdf
  
  Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Hydrates Research Consortium, Oxford, Mississippi, February 26-27, 2008: Fast and Efficient Storage of Seafloor Observatory Data Sequences with DBXten.
• Storage and Distribution of Digital Data from the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor Observatory.pdf
  
  Presentation to the 2006 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, May 1-4, 2006: Storage and Distribution of Digital Data from the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor Observatory.
• VENUS/NEPTUNE DMAS Examination, Final Report
  
  In this 238-page PDF report, BCS provided information on data types, current data management systems and practices, data products, and data analysis/access tools that relate to the scientific disciplines that will use the VENUS/NEPTUNE data from the University of Victoria.