1. A system for collaborating on a component, comprising: at least one computing device including a processor configured to execute a data module and an editing module; a database in a memory storage device on a host server, the database accessible by at least two client multi-user CAx environments; the data module is configured to store a component design in the database; the editing module is configured to generate developed feature data of the component design in response to executing a global command relating to a multi-user CAx command set, to generate undeveloped feature data of the component design in response to executing at least one local command relating to a local CAx command set, only a portion of the local CAx command set being mapped to the multi-user CAx command set wherein each of the undeveloped feature data and the developed feature data is supported by the local CAx command set but the undeveloped feature data is unsupported by the multi-user CAx command set, and to cause the data module to store undeveloped feature data and the developed feature data in the database; and the data module is configured to store the undeveloped feature data to the database in a native data format common with the local CAx command set, and is configured to store the developed feature data to the database in a global data format common with the multi-user CAx command set and the database.