By transparently maintaining open cursors, VORTEXaccelerator eliminates the need to create multiple cursors, thereby reducing the amount of work the database kernel has to do to exercise each SQL statement. By caching all cursors into shared memory, accelerator saves large amounts of memory for each application.

The efficient use of resources increases the total number of users that can interact with the database and the performance gains are scalable. Without new hardware, customers are able to connect more users and complete transactions faster thereby elimininating the need for upgrades that application enhancements often require. VORTEXaccelerator, the transaction processing monitor for multi-user applications, dramatically increases the number of users who can concurrently log into a specific SQL production application -- up to 10 times the previous number of users. Instead of performance degredation, too, VORTEXaccelerator improves the response time.

VORTEXaccelerator is completely transparent to both the developer and end user. Any application attached to the VORTEXserver, Trifox's virtual database interface, can take advantage of the accelerator. VORTEXaccelerator achieves these performance improvements solely by managing database resources more effectively. It does not require additional programming or hardware.