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SAP MaxDB Database

MaxDB by MySQL is a re-branded and enhanced version of SAP DB, SAP AG's open source database. MaxDB is a heavy-duty, SAP-certified open source database that offers high availability, scalability and a comprehensive feature set.
SAP MaxDB is the database management system developed and supported by SAP AG. It has its focus on the requirements of SAP customers and SAP applications and can be used as a less expensive alternative to databases from other vendors for your own or third-party applications as well. It is a competitive database management system for medium to large server configurations and also a convincing offering for a desktop or laptop database management system, as SAP MaxDB is very easy to install.

The key benefits of SAP MaxDB are its many built-in self-administering features. SAP MaxDB is available for the most prominent operating system/hardware platforms Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Unix. Today more than 13,000 SAP customers run SAP MaxDB and SAP liveCache installations, proving SAP MaxDB's reliability, scalability and availability for configurations of all sizes. SAP MaxDB is also widely used within SAP, for example for the Service Marketplace, the documentation development in Knowledge Warehouse, and also SDN runs on SAP MaxDB. SDN currently is one of the largest SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation with far more than 1,000,000 named users, and it runs on SAP MaxDB and Linux-x64.

Category

Database & Data Management

Red Hat Certifications

This product has been certified to run on the following Red Hat products and technologies:

Target Product Level
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x Self-Certified