Today's information managers face a wide array of computing paradigms, including online transaction processing (OLTP), decision support systems (DSS), mixed workload environments, and the Internet. Businesses need a powerful and reliable database solution that will adapt to meet their specific requirements, without sacrificing performance. Adaptive Server Enterprise delivers performance and scalability in these environments across a wide range of data sources and data types.

The highly efficient, multithreaded architecture of Adaptive Server Enterprise offers robust scalability and performance to meet the demands of even the most challenging business applications. Adaptive Server Enterprise can be configured to spawn multiple engines on an SMP system, allowing even distribution of client connections across all engines. The engines also handle disk access on their own, providing near linear scaling with the incremental addition of users.