Fully distribute data across either homogeneous or heterogeneous network environments. Have full supercomputer to workstation distributed functionality. Fully exploit the features of the operating system. Open connect, interoperate to variety third party tools and DBMSs. Use Java programming language to access databases.
Empress offers a wide variety of data types.
These include such specialized types as date, time and currency, as well as variable length text and bulk data types. The manipulation of these data types within Empress can be simplified considerably since users can create customized data handling functions which can be integrated into the DBMS engine itself. Also, Empress variable-length text and bulk attributes allow for storage of essentially an unlimited amount of data. Empress allows data to be fully distributed across the network. Furthermore, such operations are independent of the hardware being used, since Empress supports heterogeneous distributions amongst databases.