Workgroup RDBMS
The #1 Database in the World for Small 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 dependability in small 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. Many companies trust this space-efficient, cost-effective database manager in their production work around the world. Whether your application uses the OpenEdge ABL language, ODBC, or JDBC, we have a solid and reliable product for you.
Our focus is supporting OLTP business applications, and our strength is in ease of operation and cost-effective deployments that “just work”.
The OpenEdge Workgroup RDBMS is an established and reliable database management system for small production systems around the world. Our scalability and ease of management are truly “proven in use”.
- Increase business productivity with the highly efficient OpenEdge ABL and the very effective OpenEdge SQL as they create and report OLTP results for small companies
- Reduce capital and administrative expenses 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 Enterprise database for increased scalability and performance.
- Focus on service for your business users, because OpenEdge production systems are very easy to automate and administer.
- Be secure knowing that OpenEdge workgroup applications support 50-user deployments around the world
- Consolidate datacenter management as you save money managing datacenters located in remote locations.
- OpenEdge has built-in remote administration capabilities.
For small business 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. Here are some more features:
- Support for unicode data and index keys (1970 byte)
- Compatible ODBC, JDBC, and ABL access to data
- Java stored procedures supported by OpenEdge SQL
- Referential integrity for SQL and ABL (triggers)
- 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 50 concurrent users
- Support for tables of up to 9 quintillion rows
- Support for up to 1 terabyte of memory
Workgroup 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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