<s>
Transbase	B-Application
is	O
a	O
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
,	O
developed	O
and	O
maintained	O
by	O
Transaction	O
Software	O
GmbH	O
,	O
Munich	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
development	O
of	O
Transbase	B-Application
was	O
started	O
in	O
the	O
1980s	O
by	O
Rudolf	O
Bayer	O
under	O
the	O
name	O
"	O
Merkur	O
"	O
at	O
the	O
department	O
of	O
Computer	O
Science	O
of	O
the	O
Technical	O
University	O
of	O
Munich	O
(	O
TUM	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Transbase	B-Application
largely	O
conforms	O
with	O
the	O
SQL	B-Language
standard	I-Language
"	O
SQL2	O
intermediate	O
level	O
"	O
(	O
SQL-92	B-Language
)	O
and	O
supports	O
various	O
features	O
of	O
SQL2	O
follow-on	O
versions	O
(	O
SQL:1999	B-Language
,	O
SQL:2003	B-Language
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
developed	O
a	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
called	O
"	O
Merkur	O
"	O
in	O
the	O
1980s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1989	O
"	O
Merkur	O
"	O
was	O
renamed	O
and	O
called	O
"	O
Transbase	B-Application
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
wide	O
use	O
of	O
Transbase	B-Application
,	O
especially	O
as	O
basis	O
for	O
repair	O
part	O
management	O
and	O
documentation	O
systems	O
in	O
the	O
automobile	O
industry	O
soon	O
led	O
to	O
a	O
considerable	O
number	O
of	O
ports	O
to	O
diverse	O
operating	O
systems	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
UNIX	B-Application
derivatives	O
,	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
Windows	B-Application
,	O
VMS	B-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
Mac	B-Application
OS	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Major	O
steps	O
in	O
the	O
further	O
development	O
of	O
Transbase	B-Application
were	O
the	O
integration	O
of	O
functions	O
for	O
distributed	O
queries	O
to	O
several	O
databases	B-Application
in	O
parallel	O
,	O
the	O
fulltext-search	O
extension	O
and	O
the	O
support	O
of	O
foreign	O
languages	O
,	O
(	O
"	O
Myriad	O
"	O
)	O
such	O
as	O
Chinese	O
and	O
Japanese	O
,	O
</s>
<s>
Transbase	B-Application
supports	O
all	O
important	O
functions	O
of	O
the	O
SQL	B-Language
standard	I-Language
:	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
TransbaseCD	O
database	O
option	O
can	O
use	O
read-only	O
storage	O
media	O
such	O
as	O
CD	B-Device
,	O
DVD	O
or	O
Blu-ray	O
Discs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Transbase	B-Application
Hypercube	O
supports	O
Relational	O
Online	O
Analytical	O
Processing	O
(	O
ROLAP	O
)	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
primarily	O
used	O
in	O
data	O
warehouse	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Transbase	B-Application
offers	O
optional	O
encryption	O
of	O
data	O
stored	O
on	O
disk	O
,	O
using	O
the	O
Advanced	B-Algorithm
Encryption	I-Algorithm
Standard	I-Algorithm
algorithm	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
encryption	O
of	O
data	O
transferred	O
through	O
database	O
connections	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Transbase	B-Application
provides	O
parallel	O
execution	O
of	O
queries	O
via	O
dynamic	O
multithreading	B-General_Concept
technology	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Transbase	B-Application
supports	O
replication	B-Architecture
of	O
a	O
master	O
database	O
in	O
several	O
slave	O
database	B-Application
instances	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Replication	B-Architecture
can	O
be	O
configured	O
synchronous	O
(	O
for	O
hot-standby	O
databases	B-Application
)	O
or	O
asynchronous	O
for	O
distributing	O
database	O
changes	O
to	O
a	O
huge	O
number	O
of	O
recipients	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Replicated	O
databases	B-Application
can	O
even	O
be	O
cascaded	O
in	O
the	O
latter	O
case	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Transbase	B-Application
Crowd	O
was	O
designed	O
to	O
store	O
IoT	O
data	O
in	O
local	O
edge	O
databases	B-Application
that	O
are	O
connected	O
to	O
a	O
Transbase	B-Application
Crowd	O
database	O
that	O
distributed	O
query	B-Application
processing	I-Application
automatically	O
over	O
all	O
connected	O
edge	O
databases	B-Application
and	O
thus	O
produces	O
global	O
results	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
summarizes	O
the	O
current	O
limits	O
as	O
implemented	O
in	O
version	O
6.9	O
of	O
Transbase	B-Application
:	O
</s>
