SESAME (database) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

SESAM / SQL Server is a relational database system developed by Fujitsu Technology Solutions

Fujitsu Technology Solutions

Fujitsu Technology Solutions is one of the leading European IT vendors with a presence in all key markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India...

. It runs on the BS2000/OSD mainframe.
Endpoint clients running on BS2000/OSD, UNIX systems, Solaris, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

and Microsoft Windows are possible.
Features=

Support for SQL3
Data can be stored in EBCDIC
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code is an 8-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems....

and Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
Cost-based optimizer
Maintenance is possible during operation
Table partitioning
Multi-platform support
Apache web-server integration

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