Getting Started

RAP – The Trading Edition® is a consolidated trading and risk data repository and data services platform for customers in the capital markets and investment management sectors.

This guide is intended for database and application development staff, and for Sybase® Professional Services representatives, customer IT support, and other technical personnel who set up and administer RAP. It includes information you need to understand, model, and modify logical message definitions and physical database structure when developing customized messages and feed handlers. It also describes SQL scripts and sample data provided with RAP, that allow you to run sample queries.

• RAP - The Trading Edition Infrastructure
  RAP - The Trading Edition stores large amounts of historical, reference, and real-time data from corporate sources, market data vendors, and securities exchanges for fast access by automated trading applications and various user communities with analytic needs.
• Why RAP?
  Conventional relational database management systems (RDBMS) cannot meet the real-time query requirements for automated securities trading and real-time market analysis.
• RAPStore Database
  RAP – The Trading Edition captures real-time data flow in both the cache database and the repository, and maintains a cached-copy and a disk-based copy; the repository stores the union of the historical and intraday data as one complete time series.
• RAPCache Database
  RAP stores current market data in an in-memory cache database called RAPCache.
• Sample Queries
  RAP - The Trading Edition includes SQL scripts and sample data that allow you to run sample queries. You can run the scripts against sample data to evaluate the retrieval performance for historical or real-time (intraday) data.
• Data Modeling Scenarios
  Integrated modeling supports efficient message definition and database design, and consistent production deployments.
• Sample PowerDesigner Project
  A sample project supports integrated modeling.
• Learning About PowerDesigner
  This guide tells you how to use PowerDesigner for RAP-specific tasks.