Btrieve is Back!
Btrieve is back with a modern drop-in replacement for Btrieve 6.15 that supports the latest Windows platforms & technologies.
Btrieve 12 is file format and API compatible with Btrieve 6.15. Your Btrieve 6.15 application can run with no changes, and take advantage of new & improved features, such as:
- Modern installer
- Simplified & Auto-tuning settings
- Improved concurrent/multi-user file use
- Auto reconnect
- Btrieve Control Center GUI
- Wire encryption
- IPv6 support
- Centralized logging
- Online help and documentation
- Updated utilities
Modern, flexible licensing
Btrieve 12 is available as a Limited Distribution Licence (LDL). A Btrieve 12 LDL allows the holder to create and deploy licences totaling 1,000 seats. The 1,000 seats can be split into any size required, allowing Btrieve to scale from stand-alone systems, to small peer-to-peer environments, SMBs, right up to large corporate deployments.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Btrieve v6.15 | Btrieve 12 | Zen/PSQL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Btrieve API | |||
| SQL API (ODBC, ADO.NET, JDBC) | |||
| Non-Btrieve (PDAC, JCL) | |||
| 5.x file format | R/W | Read-only | Read-only |
| 6.x file format | R/W | R/W | R/W |
| 7.x, 8.x, 9.x file format | R/W | ||
| Windows 7, 8, 10 support | |||
| Cache engine | |||
| Multicore support | |||
| Updated utilities | |||
| GUI-driven Control Center | |||
| Linux | |||
| Mac OS X | |||
| Referential integrity | |||
| Unicode support | |||
| Custom installation | |||
| Page compression | |||
| Configurable L2 cache | |||
| Maximum page size | 4KB | 4KB | 16KB |
| Maximum file size | 4GB | 4GB | 256GB |
Btrieve 12