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title: "EXM database"
slug: "exm-database"
abstract: "Overview of Sitecore EXM database supported infrastructure, references, and privacy and security."
---
# EXM database

The EXM database stores the email dispatch queue used by the [EXM Dispatch](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/91/platform-administration-and-architecture/exm-dispatch.html "EXM Dispatch") roles to handle email generation and dispatching.

## Supported infrastructure

You can host the EXM database on:

- SQL Server
- SQL Azure

Refer to the [Sitecore compatibility table](https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/087164) for compatible versions.

## Reference structure

The EXM database has its place in the Sitecore reference structure. It can be referenced by other roles, and it can also reference other roles.

![Illustration showing the EXM database's place in the Sitecore reference structure.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/91/platform-administration-and-architecture/images/exm-database.png)

### Referenced by

The EXM database is referenced by the following roles:

- [Content Management](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/91/platform-administration-and-architecture/content-management--cm-.html "Content Management (CM)")
- [EXM Dispatch](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/91/platform-administration-and-architecture/exm-dispatch.html "EXM Dispatch")

### References

The EXM database does not reference other roles.

## Privacy and security

The EXM database handles personal data in the following ways:

- Stores the email address of suppressed email recipients in the Suppressed table. Email addresses are removed when a contact executes the right to be forgotten.