The underlying truly relational oriented server provides a solid foundation for dealing with databases very efficiently and without limitations:

• Tera-byte size databases
• Giga-byte size CHARACTER column values (UTF8 encoded)
• Giga-byte size BLOBs and CLOBs
• Datastore encryption (block mode, on the fly)
• Client/server communication encryption (streaming, on the fly)
• In-memory caching of tables
• Row-level privileges
• Sophisticated locking model
• Backup of live databases
• Multi-column optimized B-tree indexing with very low overhead
• Replication/mirroring
• Super-fast start-up times
• Stored procedures and functions
• Server side cursors
• Query plan information
• Multiple non-rectangular result sets
• Clusters
• Streaming QuickTime content
• MySQL migration tool
• FileMaker migration tool