Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
Welcome to Release 10

OpenEdge RDBMS

For the special demands of mission-critical applications, many organizations have chosen the OpenEdge Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The OpenEdge RDBMS is a high-performance database solution for real-world applications that also features one of the industry's lowest total costs of ownership. Business-critical applications demand not only the ability to support high processing rates for simple transactions, but also high throughput and fast response times for the longer, more complex transactions that characterize many commercial systems.

The OpenEdge RDBMS provides a feature set targeted at supporting environments that require high transaction rates, guaranteed data integrity, and high availability. Maximum throughput is provided through capabilities like record-level locking, which minimizes data contention; query optimization strategies, which improve data retrieval times; and intelligent record buffering, which reduces network traffic. Data integrity is ensured through features such as roll-forward and roll-back recovery from system problems, and online backup for nonstop operations.