Extended Parallel Server

Extended Parallel Server provides the following features:

• Client/server architecture
• Dynamic Scalable Architecture
• Multithreaded operation
• Scalability of performance
• Client/server operations
• Dynamic shared-memory management
• Direct (unbuffered) disk management
• Fault tolerance and high availability
• Database server security
• Year 2000 compliance

Extended Parallel Server supports the following types of data:

• Built-in data types
• Storage and access of simple large objects

Extended Parallel Server extends the following features for the management of large databases on multiple coservers:

• Extended parallel-processing architecture, which provides these features:
  • Extended multithreaded operation
  • Extended scalability of performance
  • Extended client/server operations
  • Extended dynamic shared-memory management
• Single point of administration

The following sections explain each of these features.