SESAM (database) explained

SESAM / SQL Server is a relational database system originally developed by Siemens, whose role as developer was successively succeeded by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme (SNI),^[1] Fujitsu Siemens Computers, and now Fujitsu Technology Solutions. It runs on the BS2000/OSD mainframe.

Clients running on BS2000/OSD, UNIX systems, Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows are supported.

Features

• Support for SQL3
• Data can be stored in EBCDIC and Unicode
• Cost-based optimizer
• Maintenance is possible during operation
• Table partitioning
• Multi-platform support
• Apache web-server integration

References

1. Book: Erhard Rahm. Mehrrechner-Datenbanksysteme: Grundlagen der verteilten und parallelen Datenbankverarbeitung. 1994. Erhard Rahm. German. 978-3-89319-702-6. 393.

• SESAM/SQL Product Page
• SESAM/SQL Presentation