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Embedded Databases
Model Berkeley DB BirdStep DataBase Engine 3.0 Cloudscape Embedded Server
Manufacturer Sleepycat Software, Inc. Birdstep Technology Cloudscape/ Informix PointBase
Operating System Linux;
QNX;
Windows 95/98/NT/2000;
VxWorks		 EPOC;
PalmOS;
Linux;
QNX;
VxWorks;
Elate;
OSE;
Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000;
WinCE;
FreeBSD		 Windows CE;
EPOC;
Linux;
Windows 98, NT;
Solaris;
HP-UX, AIX, OS/400;
Mac OS		 EPOC;
Windows CE;
Windriver VxWorks;
PalmOS
Memory 315KB (Full Package) 60K (min. size) 2MB 800KB
Network Connections None ODBC;
JDBC		 JDBC;
HTTP;
HTTPS		 JDBC;
HTTP
Synchronization None SyncML bi-directiona Data;
One way Schema and application		 One way, bi-directional, "hub & spoke" or P2P;
Synchronizes with Oracle, IBM, DB2, MS SQL
Security None None Signed JAR files;
LDAP and NIS+;
SSL support;
DES 64-encryption		 SQL Security & authentication;
40/128-bit data encryption
API C/C++;
Java;
Perl;
Tcl;
Python		 SQL;
OLE-DB;
ADO;
JNI and JDBC;
COM objects;
C++;
XML;
Python Wrapper		 JDBC;
SQL-92;
SQL-J		 JDBC;
SQL-92;
SQL-99
Development Tools Portable to any development tools supporting the API languages Birdwalk;
Visual C++		 Cloudview;
IBM VisualAge;
Visual Cafe		 Visual Cafe;
Microsoft J++;
IBM VisualAge;
Inprise JBuilder
Other Features B+tree, Hash, Fixed- and Variable-length record, and Persistent Queue access methods;
transaction support;
database recoverability		 XML DOM;
XML parsing;
Xpath;
Unicode		 Triggers;
Auto re-optimization;
Multicolumn B-Tree indexes;
Transaction rollback and isolation;
Multithread connections;
Referential Integrity		 Row-Level locking;
Full Referential Integrity;
Availablility Currently Available Currently Available Currently Available Currently Available

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Embedded Databases
Model Empress RDBMS Mobile Edition Oracle8i Lite Polyhedra Real-Time Embedded Database
Manufacturer Empress PointBase Oracle Polyhedra
Operating System Solaris;
Sun O/S;
HP-UX;
AIX;
Digital UNIX;
IRIX;
Win NT;
Linux;
SCO QNX;
LYNX RTOS		 EPOC;
Windows CE;
Windriver VxWorks;
PalmOS		 WinCE;
PalmOS;
EPOC32		 Windows 98, NT, 2000;
Linux;
Solaris;
OSE;
VxWorks
Memory 800KB (min. size) 800KB 750MB (With all Functionality) N/A
Network Connections ODBC;
JDBC		 JDBC;
HTTP		 ODBC;
JDBC;
iConnect through NET8, HTTP, wireless and FTP		 ODBC;
JDBC;
HTTP
Synchronization Data Replication One way bi-directional, "hub & spoke" or P2P;
Synchronizes with Oracle, IBM, DB2, MS SQL		 Data Replication;
Subquery Snapshots		 Master, Standby & Replicas modes of replication
Security None SQL Security;
40/128-bit data encryption		 None SQL Security & authentication
API SQL;
C/C++;
FORTRAN;
JDBC		 JDBC;
SQL-92;
SQL-99		 SQL-92;
SQLJ;
OKAPI;
Java Access Classes;
JDBC		 SQL;
OLE/DB;
JDBC;
C/C++ Callback;
Generic Device Interface (GDI)
Development Tools EmpHTML;
EmpPerl;
EmpTcl/Tk;
JumpStart		 Visual Cafe;
Microsoft J++;
IBM VisualAge;
Inprise JBuilder		 Visual C++;
Windows CE emulation mode;
Oracle's JDeveloper, JBuilde;
Visual Cafe;
Visual Basic;
Delphi;
Oracle Lite Designer/Navigator;
Web-to-go SDK		 Visual Basic;
Visual C++
Other Features HTML Interface, Replication Server Row-Level locking;
Full Referential Integrity		 Java Stored Procedures and Triggers;
Java Servlet;
Row-level locking;
Web-to-go Application Builder		 Active Queries;
Control Language scripting;
Journal Control Process;
Web Database Server;
Historian
Availablility Currently Available Currently Available Currently Available Currently Available

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Embedded Databases
Model SOLID Embedded Engine SQL Anywhere SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition SQLBase 7.5
Manufacturer Solid Information Technology Sybase Microsoft Centura
Operating System Windows 95/98/NT/2000;
VxWorks;
Solaris;
Linux;
HP-UX;
FreeBSD;
ChorusOS;
EPOC;
Enea OS		 Windows CE;
PalmOS;
VxWorks;
DOS;
EPOC		 Windows CE Win 9X, NT
Memory 450KB(min. size);
2MB (max. size)		 50K (min. size) 1MB (With all Functionality) N/A
Network Connections ODBC;
JDBC		 ODBC;
JDBC;
Sybase OpenClient		 Remote Data Access through HTTP ODBC;
JDBC
Synchronization bi-directional Mobilink synchronization through TCP/IP to any ODBC compliant database;
Sybase SQL Remote through FTP or email;
RiverBed ScoutSync;
Palm HotSync		 Merge Replication;
Remote Data Access		 None
Security None 128-bit data encryption 128-bit data encryption during synchronization;
RSA 128-bit data file encryption;
Database password authentication		 Password Authentication;
40-bit data encryption using cryptogram and DES
API SQL-92;
JDBC		 Embedded SQL;
Transact-SQL;
SQL-92;
C++;
JDBC		 Transact-SQL;
ADOCE;
OLEDBCE		 SQL;
C/C++ (DLL and linked);
JDBC
Development Tools N/A Sybase PowerBuilder;
Visual C++;
Visual Basic;
Delphi;
Metrowerks CodeWarrior;
WindRiver Tornado		 eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0;
Platform Builder		 SQLBase Embedded Deployment Kit;
Visual Basic
Other Features Stored procedures and commands;
Symmetric multi-processing;
Unions;
Triggers;
Multithread processing		 SQL and Java Triggers and Stored Procedures;
Referencial and entity Integrity;
cascading deletes and updates;
Full Transactional Processing;
Row-Level locking;
Event scheduling and handling;
2048 indexes per table;
32,767 tables per database;
2GB field size;
unlimited rows and columns;
 Full referencial Integrity;
Cascading deletes and updates;
32 indexes per table;
Nested transactions;
DDL/DML		 Synonyms;
Views;
Stored procedures and Triggers;
Nested selects;
Unions;
Referential Integrity
Availablility Currently Available Currently Available Currently Available Currently Available

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Embedded Databases
Model TimesTen 4.3
Manufacturer TimesTen Performance Software
Operating System VxWorks
Memory 5MB
Network Connections ODBC
Synchronization N-way replication;
P2P or cascading replication
Security Client/Server Authentication
API SQL;
C/C++
Development Tools N/A
Other Features SNNP events & alerts;
In-Memory database;
Checkpoints & Data Recovery
Availablility Currently Available