OpenEdge supports a multi-threaded architecture (for SQL and utilities only), multi-process architecture, which provides multiple paths to a database. A multi-threaded, multi-process architecture provides specific functionality for a database in the following ways:
Each local client or self-serving client can access the database and service its own requests.
Each database server listens for and runs requests for one or more remote clients. The database broker initializes shared memory and either starts a new server for each additional client or set of clients that access the database or dispatches additional clients to an existing server.
All machines that run operating systems with shared memory can run a SQL server as multi-threaded, enabling multiple remote clients on a network to access the database simultaneously using shared memory.
Each local client or self-serving client can access the database and service its own requests.