It has sometimes been one of the limited options available in realtime critical applications and resource restricted situations such as mobile devices.
[3][4][5][6] Mimer SQL originated from a project from the ITC service center supporting Uppsala University and some other institutions to leverage the relational database capabilities proposed by Codd and others.
Other universities were interested in the project on a number of machine architectures and Mimer was rewritten in Fortran to achieve portability.
[2] As of April 2018[update] the Mimer SQL database server is currently supported on the main platforms of Windows, MacOS, Linux, and OpenVMS (Itanium and x86-64[7]).
[8] Previous versions of the database engine was supported on other operating systems including Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru 64, SCO[9] and DNIX.
[11] These options enable Mimer SQL to be deployed to a wide variety of additional target platforms, such as Android, and real-time operating systems including VxWorks.