Why Pervasive.SQL?

You or your application vendor have chosen wisely in selecting Pervasive.SQL as the database of choice. Within the realm of small- to mid-sized enterprises, Pervasive.SQL provides the lowest-maintenance, highest-performance, best overall DBMS value on the market today.

Pervasive.SQL provides a number of advantages over other products. Here are just a few:

Lowest total-cost-of-ownership. An independent study conducted by Aberdeen Group concluded that no major database product can match Pervasive.SQL's low total-cost-of-ownership.

No Database Administrator (DBA) required. You can look in the newspaper any day of the week and see classified ads for Oracle, Sybase, or SQL Server database administrators, with sky-high salaries. Pervasive.SQL offers the unique Zero Database Administrator, or Z-DBA™, architecture. Its easy-to-use tools, bulletproof installation, and set-it-and-forget-it simplicity make Pervasive.SQL the perfect workhorse for desktop, workgroup, and departmental applications.

Scalable from the desktop to the Web. Pervasive.SQL is available in two editions: the Ultra-light™ Workgroup database engine supports applications running locally on the same computer as the engine. It comes with a 5-user license and scales to 10 users. The Server engine starts with a 10-user license and scales to thousands of concurrent users, including intranet and extranet applications. Upgrading to another configuration requires no changes to the supported application, just plug-and-play with the new database engine.

Cross-platform support. Unlike some other products, Pervasive.SQL does not lock you in to a single platform. Pervasive.SQL databases are binary-compatible and supported across Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare, and several varieties of Linux. No matter where your data is or where it is going to be, Pervasive.SQL is there for you.

Big database features at a small price. Pervasive.SQL offers full security, encryption, management and monitoring tools, and a host of other features you would expect to see in more expensive DBMS products.

Legendary stability and reliability. Pervasive database engines have been serving the needs of business users for nearly twenty years. In fact, 70% of the Windows desktop accounting market uses Pervasive.SQL as the underlying DBMS of choice. When you must manage important data, you use the DBMS that will support your needs.

Multiple access methods. Your application vendor can use the transactional interface for blazing performance on bulk data operations, while offering the richness of ODBC, OLE-DB, pure Java, and JDBC interfaces for data reporting, security, analysis, and standard compatibility. No other database management system offers all these access methods.