Venues® Data Engine

The Venues® Data Engine is a Microsoft Windows-native database engine coupled with a complement of Venues® Data-aware Windows front-end design tools and a standard suite of financial analytic, statistical, time, and data extraction, calculation and manipulation tools.

Venues® was written by finance professionals for finance professionals. It was specifically designed to facilitate the unique data handling and analytic challenges associated with professional investment management.

The Venues® Data Engine has an easily understood Windows-compliant API. Unique to Venues® is a natural, built-in time series and cross sectional capability — a structural characteristic required to tackle investment management problems correctly. Each data element in Venues® can have at least one internal reference to a time series.

Relational, Self-Regulating and Fast

The Venues® Data Engine is fully and naturally relational without requiring the separately constructed A-to-B table joins necessary in virtually all standard "relational" databases.

In Venues®, "N/A's" take up no space. Structural and data additions or deletions can be made on-the-fly without requiring database rewrites. The Venues® Data Engine is written in C and Assembler and uses a proprietary implementation of b-tree technology in which database size is fully self-regulating, growing with data additions; shrinking with deletions.

Venues® retrieval and calculation routines use a highly optimized form of vector processing. Accordingly, tasks that can take a weekend in a traditional relational database can take minutes on a desktop Intel Pentium based machine.

Venues® Knows Finance

In addition to be being structured to hold and handle financial data, a full complement of standard finance functions are literally built into Venues® analytics as native calls. These functions are available to the user through Venues® fourth generation macro language.

• Means
• Weighted Averages (cross-sectional and time-series)
• Standard Deviations
• Log-Linear Growth
• Return-on-Investment
• Yield-to-Maturity
• Duration, etc.

Venues® Stands the Tests of Time and Market Use

Since the mid-1980's, Venues®'s database technology has been used in over 1,500 professional finance institutions as the basis for a major data supplier's flagship desktop, data delivery and analytic product offering.

In addition, the current Venues® Data Engine serves as the foundation for major third-party data vendors product offerings and forms the basis of a number of software applications and tools licensed directly to end user clients by Charter Oak Investment Systems, Inc.