With SQL Anywhere you can strongly encrypt database files, and synchronization and client-server communication transport layers.

SQL Anywhere offers the following strong encryption algorithms:

¹ The software for strong encryption using ECC or FIPS-certified technology must be ordered separately.

² AES and RSA strong encryption are included with SQL Anywhere and do not require a separate license, but these libraries are not FIPS-certified.

RSA, ECC, and FIPS-certified encryption are not available on all platforms. For information about which platforms support which encryption method, see  http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1061806.

The security option provides Certicom DLLs that implement the encryption algorithms, and additional DLLs that provide an interface between SQL Anywhere software and the Certicom libraries.

The SQL Anywhere security option includes the following:

For more information about encryption, see Data security.

For UltraLite databases, the license for CAC Authentication must be ordered separately. In addition, this option requires the SQL Anywhere security option.

For SQL Anywhere databases, the license for using the in-memory mode must be ordered separately.

For information about platform support, see  SQL Anywhere Supported Platforms and Engineering Support Status.

For more information about in-memory mode, see -im dbeng12/dbsrv12 server option.

For SQL Anywhere databases, the license for using read-only scale-out must be ordered separately. Read-only scale-out is a configuration that allows you to offload reporting or other operations that require read-only access to the database. For more information about the read-only scale-out option, see SQL Anywhere read-only scale-out.

For SQL Anywhere databases, the license for using the Veritas Cluster Server agents or for using database mirroring for failover must be ordered separately.

For information about platform support, see  SQL Anywhere Supported Platforms and Engineering Support Status.

For more information about database mirroring, see Database mirroring.

For more information about the SQL Anywhere Veritas Cluster Server agents, see SQL Anywhere Veritas Cluster Server agents.

The MobiLink high availability option allows you to group multiple MobiLink servers into server farms of identical servers using the shared state mode. When MobiLink runs in shared state mode it can block the same remote database from synchronizing simultaneously with multiple servers, thereby ensuring data integrity. MobiLink shared state support also enables load balancing and failover for server initiated sync.

For more information about running MobiLink in a server farm, see Run the MobiLink server in a server farm.

The SQL Anywhere Monitor Production Edition must be ordered separately. The production edition is intended for deployment and production use. For more information about the Monitor, see SQL Anywhere Monitor.