Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Data Management:
SQL Development

Multi-threaded architecture

OpenEdge supports a multi-threaded architecture, which provides multiple paths to a database. A multi-threaded architecture provides specific functionality to a database in the following ways:

Each local client or self-serving client can access the database and service its own requests.
Each remote client server queues 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 attaches additional clients to an existing server.
All machines that run operating systems with shared memory can run as multi-threaded, because multiple clients and remote client servers on a network access the database simultaneously using shared memory.