Light-weight database engine for Delphi 1?

Question

Hi - I'm looking for a light-weight database engine for Delphi 1 (don't ask, it's a long story). Delphi 1 is 16-bit. The engine should compile into the EXE. SQL would be nice, but not mandatory. Any info would be great. Thanks, Carl

Answer 1

How about sqlite?

Answer 2

A 16-bit version of Microsoft Jet should be easy to integrate even with older versions of BDE (ODBC driver).

Otherwise you can use .db files (dBase - xBase), BDE should be able to handle them directly.

Answer 3

Turbo Power Btree Filer ? IIRC TP's is open source and TP was 16-bit.

Maybe this or the other DBF tool has 16-bit options. However the one I used (TDBF) doesn't afaik.

Answer 4

A long time ago I used VB/ISAM with Delphi 1. It works well with Delphi 16bit even though it was originally made for VB. It is from Software Source. I think we were using v4.x.

Answer 5

why not check on Delphi Super Pages web site. They use to maintain a complete code and component collections for Delphi 1.

I don't know the current situation though ;)

If you want I have a VBX based DB engine called VSData.

I never used Delphi 1 so I don't know as to how good it was at handling VBX. I have used this db engine as at that time this was the only engine to support storing multimedia files!