Embedded database

An embedded database system is a database management system (DBMS) which is tightly integrated with an application software; it is embedded in the application. It is a broad technology category that includes: database systems with differing application programming interfaces (SQL as well as proprietary, native APIs) database architectures (client-server and in-process) storage modes (on-disk, in-memory, and combined) database models (relational, object-oriented, entity–attribute–value model, network/CODASYL) target markets The term embedded database can be confusing because only a small subset of embedded database products are used in real-time embedded systems such as telecommunications switches and consumer electronics. (See mobile database for small-footprint databases that could be used on embedded devices.) Major embedded database products include, in alphabetical order: Advantage Database Server from Sybase Inc. ArcticDB from Man Group Berkeley DB from Oracle Corporation DuckDB from DuckDB Labs CSQL from csqlcache.com Extensible Storage Engine from Microsoft eXtremeDB from McObject Firebird Embedded HSQLDB from HSQLDB.ORG, Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) from IBM InfinityDB from Boiler Bay Inc. InnoDB from Oracle Corporation InterBase (Both server and mobile friendly deeply embedded version) from Embarcadero Technologies KùzuDB LanceDB Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) from Symas Corp. Mimer SQL Raima Database Manager from Raima solidDB SQLite SQL Server Compact from Microsoft Corporation Sophia Embeddable key-value storage Advantage Database Server Sybase's Advantage Database Server (ADS) is an embedded database management system. It provides both ISAM and relational data access and is compatible with multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, and Netware. It is available as a royalty-free local file-server database or a full client-server version. ADS is highly scalable, with no administration, and has support for a variety of IDEs including .NET Framework (.