Diasoft builds an SSRS clone to drag Russian legacy code off Microsoft
Russian vendor Diasoft rolled out an update to its database platform, adding an engine that mimics Microsoft's vintage reporting service to ease enterprise migration away from Western tech.
Russian enterprise vendor Diasoft has released an update to its database management platform, Digital Q.DataBase, targeting organizations attempting to leave foreign software behind. The central addition is a built-in reporting engine engineered to function as a drop-in replacement for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), a reporting framework first introduced by Microsoft over two decades ago.
According to the company's release, the new service natively parses Microsoft's Report Definition Language (RDL). It handles master-detail hierarchies, grouping, aggregations, and direct export to HTML and PDF formats. The goal is straightforward: allow corporate customers to transfer existing corporate reports into a domestically sanctioned system without re-engineering their underlying data processing logic.
The update also restructures the database into modular dialects that can be updated independently: PostgreSQL, Oracle's PL/SQL, and Microsoft SQL Server's T-SQL. To prevent legacy automation scripts from breaking during migrations, the platform now accepts native maintenance commands like BACKUP, RESTORE, and DBCC without raising errors, alongside expanded T-SQL syntax support such as MERGE, OPENXML, and deadlock graphs.
On the application tier, the software incorporates an updated .NET CLR converter capable of tracking assembly dependencies and translating legacy ASMX web services. For Oracle workloads, Diasoft updated its driver bindings and added support for packages like DBMS_DB_VERSION and OWA_COOKIE.
Diasoft product head Alexey Tatarinov argued that modular dialect support and legacy compatibility allow enterprises to switch stacks substantially faster while retaining familiar administration workflows. The engineering trade-off is clear: instead of modernizing application architectures, the platform reproduces decades of proprietary behaviors and workarounds to keep aging systems afloat.
Source: habr
Product page: Digital Q.DataBase
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