RDBMS Client and Server Engines

When evaluating database applications for mobile clients, you should ask these questions about the RDBMS client and server engines:

• Does the vendor offer a single RDBMS engine that scales from a mobile client to an enterprise-class server?
• Do the local and central RDBMS engines support atomic transactions?
• Does the RDBMS engine support two-way merge replication, which guarantees delivery of data in a disconnected environment?
• Does the RDBMS engine support heterogeneous replication to other RDBMS engines?
• Will the RDBMS engine scale to support multiple mobile clients?
• What are the system requirements for running the database engine and replication engine on the client?