SAP DB is a mature and reliable database system that combines extremely high levels of performance and availability with a low cost of ownership. It offers absolute ease of use and almost unsupervised operation. SAP DB can handle a wide range of different types of information, which makes it a suitable server for diverse application scenarios.
SAP DB works with all SAP applications. Newer SAP solutions, such as mySAP Supply Chain Management (Advanced Planner and Optimizer) and mySAP Product Lifecycle Management, use SAP DB exclusively as an integrated database engine for managing complex objects, or as a content server for structured documents. And it is not only SAP customers who can use SAP DB free of charge – at the end of 2000, SAP released its SAP DB database technology as an open source package, available to the open source community on all supported platforms at no charge.
See also: SAP DB Website at the Internet address http://www.sapdb.org.
SAP DB documentation is organized into the following areas: