Porting Database
Icreon understands the complexity of migrating from one database platform in the existing system to a completely different database framework. The process of database migration is usually difficult to execute and can be quite time-consuming due to differences between various vendors' standards and practices. Therefore, Icreon offers a comprehensive and exhaustive methodology for database migration where we perform database migration in cohesion with our clients to port the existing database from one platform to another.
Icreon's systematic methodology for database porting involves the study and analysis of the variation in the database architectures, planning of porting routines required to make the shift, performing the migration on the existing database and verification of its successful deployment.
Our database specialists are adept at creating cost-effective and rapid database migration and porting plan. Most commonly there are potential risks involved owing to the sensitivity and size of the underlying data. Icreon's database porting team discusses in depth about these potential risks with the client so as to execute the most efficient and financially feasible solution.
We also perform a thorough comparative study of the two frameworks being involved in the migration process before performing the actual migration. Some of the factors that are taken into consideration are comparisons in the basic architectures of the two systems, datatype declaration compatibility, memory models being used by the two systems, terminology relativity, differences in the representation of date and time by the two frameworks, limits attached to each datatype and the feasibility of type conversion and potential loss of precision, concurrency control techniques implemented in the two frameworks, database administration tools being used and so on, all of which is taken care of by our team.
Most of our porting work deals with porting from Oracle to MySQL and vice - versa. Database porting is a complicated task as it involves re-designing the database system while safeguarding the existing database schemas and we are proud to inform that at Icreon database experts have mastered this task with panache.
