Absolute Database has been released!

Absolute Database - Delphi database system.

(PRWEB) August 7, 2004 -- Absolute Database - Delphi database system.

This BDE alternative is free for personal use.

Key Features:

- No BDE; no DLLs

- SQL'92 (DDL & DML) support

- Single-user and mutli-user mode (file-server)

- Single database file

- Unmatched ease-of-use

- 100% compatibility with standard DB-aware controls

- Strong encryption

- BLOB compression

- Full source code available

- Royalty-free

- Free for personal use

Ease of Deployment

- No BDE, no DLLs

- No special installation or configuration required

- Database engine compiles right into EXE

- Single-file database format

High Speed

- Advanced cache management and buffering architecture

- Sophisticated SQL query and filter optimizer

- Special optimized database engine for temporary results of SQL queries

- Fast B*-Tree indexes with high-speed on thousands and on millions of records

- Buffered transactions for batch inserts, updates and deletes

- Optimization for read-only databases, such as databases on CD

SQL support

- SELECT with DISTINCT, INNER LEFT, RIGTH, FULL and OUTER JOIN, GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses

- CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, ALTER TABLE statements

- CREATE INDEX, DROP INDEX statements

- INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE statements

- BETWEEN, IN, LIKE, IS NULL operators

- Aggregate functions COUNT,SUM,MIN,MAX,AVG

- Most of all SQL'92 arithmetic, logical, date-time and string functions and operators

- Data types conversion by function CAST

- SQL scripts (multiple commands separated by ';')

- Parameters in queries

Compactness

- Small size of code added into the application by the database engine units

- Small database file size achieved by customizable page size, compression of table metadata and other special means

- Fast BLOB data compression

- Short indexes for string fields

- Low memory consumption