Consequently, Sybase's new IMDB is the first in the industry to be "fully integrated," supplying the same look-and-feel, administration, and monitoring as the company's disk-based enterprise DB. Sybase's IMDB also uses the same T-SQL language, and supports the same APIs as the disk-based option, according to Rathee. Acknowledging there are trade-offs involved, Rathee admitted that IMDBs can pose compromises to data "durability," or recoverability. Database administrators, though, can preserve data in the IMDB by performing "data dumps" prior to system shutdown and boot-up, he said. Also, beyond the "fully in-memory database," which carries zero disk imprint, Sybase has introduced a relaxed durability option.