Upgrade from ASE SBE to ASE Adge

[Former Member]

On this site anonced

Is this mean than it's replaces old SBE, so if I get SBE license & support I can get Edge license?

On another document  http://www.sap.com/bin/sapcom/en_us/downloadasset.2012-08-aug-13-07.sap-sybase-adaptive-server-enter...

- the same info - REPLACE, not extend/enlarge?

or this info is correct? (reseller answer)

ASE SBE does not change ASE Edge Edition. This is a separate line item and revision in the price list.

ASE SBE has not stopped its existence (not END of Life) - supported and sold.

Driving license from ASE SBE and Edge is different.

The word "replaces" in the news on the forum should be understood as "continuing".

Best regards,

Viktor

[Former Member]

They way I read this, Edge replaces SBE and SBE will no longer be available (in the future).

Edge lets you use only 4 cores instead of 8 for SBE (Edge boasts unlimited "CPU chip" count, but that's useless/irrelevant if only 4 cores total are allowed per host)

And although Edge allows unlimited database size, in practice, larger databases need will need to use a few cores for running backups.  So if you need 2 stripes to get good dump throughput, that will use up 2 cores, and the dataserver will be effectively limited to remaining 2 cores (ie., 4 cores minus the number of dump stripes)

So Edge is really for smaller applications than SBE.   But there all the extra security, encryption, and partitioning features available in Edge.