VistaDB is the 1 alternative data engine to Jet/Access, MSDE and Xbase. Built specifically to provide robust, high-speed, embedded data management with minimal overhead and hassle-free XCOPY deployment. VistaDB is the perfect database for building robust small to midsize database applications under .NET and Win32. VistaDB is 70x smaller than the MSDE and more robust than Jet.

Features include a robust core data engine with built-in high-speed SQL-92 query processor, a fully managed ADO.NET Data Provider (Connection, Command, DataAdapter, DataReader objects), support for building ASP.NET and WinForms .NET applications, VCL components for Delphi/C++Builder and COM objects for VB and classic ASP, Data Builder utility to create and manage databases, Data Migration Wizard for migrating existing data to VistaDB, managed Direct Data Access objects provide live data cursors into the database, XML support, single-file data store with massize storage capacity supporting billions of records, rich data types including BLOB, Boolean, Character, Currency, Double, Date, DateTime, GUID, Int32, Int64, Memo, Picture, Varchar with NULL support for all data types, compression, secure Blowfish encryption, Snapshot isolation, fault-tolerant unlimited nesting transaction processing with SureCommit(tm) technology, triggers, constraints, relationships, single and multi-column indexes, single and multi-user support, unlimited sessions, and free unlimited distribution.