Personal RDBMS
The #1 Personal Database in the World to Embed in OLTP Applications
The Progress® OpenEdge® Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) leads the database market with low cost of ownership and the ability to scale to meet the demands of enterprise applications, e-commerce, and application service providers. The OpenEdge database provides extensive flexibility in application development with a high performance interface for the OpenEdge ABL and industry-standard SQL support with ODBC and JDBC APIs.
If you need a database management system with a two-decade record of OLTP reliability and scalability in mid-market deployments, we’re here for you. Gartner has rated the OpenEdge RDBMS tops as a database that application producers embed in their applications, regardless of whether they sell to financial, insurance, retail, manufacturing, government, or distribution markets worldwide. Large corporations also trust this scalable, cost-effective database manager in their production centers around the world. Whether your application uses the OpenEdge ABL language, ODBC, or JDBC, we have a solid and reliable product for you too.
Our focus is supporting OLTP business applications, and our strength is in ease of operation and cost-effective deployments that “just work”.
The OpenEdge RDBMS is an established, reliable database management system for production systems world-wide. Our scalability and ease of management are truly “proven in use”.
- It’s your choice: hardware, operating system, or storage. We support Windows, Linux, and Unix systems as well as the popular storage vendors.
- Enjoy great productivity with the highly efficient OpenEdge ABL and the very effective OpenEdge SQL as they create and report OLTP results.
- Reduce development costs with a database that runs on laptops, desktops, and small servers
- When the business grows, your OpenEdge Workgroup application can upgrade easily and immediately to the OpenEdge Workgroup or Enterprise database for increased scalability and performance.
- Focus on your business, because OpenEdge application deployments are very easy to automate and administer.
- Be secure knowing that OpenEdge workgroup applications support personal and small multi-user deployments around the world.
For personal data processing, this RDBMS can handle the job. An OpenEdge RDBMS stores data in compact formats, so you also realize size savings in terms of disk as well as memory use. These gains and the compact footprint of the database manager help you to get the most out of your capital budget.
- Support for unicode data and index keys (1970 byte)
- Compatible ODBC, JDBC, and ABL access to data
- Java stored procedures supported by OpenEdge SQL
- Support for up to 2GB files in the database
- Support for 1000 files per database storage area
- Support for 32,000 storage areas per database
- Support for 5 concurrent connections
- Support for tables of up to 9 quintillion rows
- Support for up to 1 terabyte of memory
Personal RDBMS is supported on the following platforms:
-HP-UX (PA-RISC) 64 and 32bit
-HP-UX Itanium2
-IBM AIX Power PC 64bit
-Linux on POWERPC
-Linux Intel 64bit
-Red Hat Linux
-SuSE LINUX
-Sun Solaris (SPARC) 64 and 32bit
-SCO UnixWare
-Windows
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