In a nutshell, what is GDS?
Global Data Server (GDS) is a database system which can connect to multiple databases (read only), yours and internet based databases. From this data, you can run SQL like queries and other lookup functions. GDS includes a very high performance SQL engine, optimised towards the read only environment removing load from production databases. The high performance database engine, combined with lightweight network protocols allow analytical presentation of current OLTP data, without the high costs usually associated with doing this. In order to allow speed of delivery and ease of implementation, GDS includes several presentation tools, HTML, XML, AJAX, Microsoft Excel Addin among others. For more technical information, refer to the technical overview What is structured data? Structured data is information or facts that is contained in a fixed format, such as databases, CSV files or XML documents. Unstructured data on the other hand is information typically contained in documents and webpag
