Difference
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Details
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Installation
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Absolute DB Engine compiles right into execuatable and doesn't require any installation.
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Distribution
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Absolute DB Engine compiles into exe and doesn't require any DLLs or OCXs.
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Encryption
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Absolute DB supports strong encryption of a databse file.
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Blob Fields Compression
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Absolute DB is capable to compress BLOB fields by ZLib, BZip and PPM compression algorithms.
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In-Memory Tables
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In-Memory tables support in Absolute DB provides interface similar to disk tables, please refer to the In-Memory Tables topic.
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BatchMove
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BatchMove functionality is provided by BatchMove method of TABSTable component.
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Multi-User
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Multi-user access is controlled by the MultiUser property of the TABSDatabase component. See also the Locking and Multi-User Access topic.
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Transactions
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Absolute DB Multi-User Edition supports transactions with Read-Commited isolation level only.
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Alias and Driver
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Absolute DB uses DatabaseFileName property of TABSDatabase component to specify database instead of alias and driver options of the BDE.
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Data Types
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See the Field Data Types topic.
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Capacities
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See the Maximum Capacity Specifications topic.
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