Microsoft: Jet Database Engine

✅ – Even Windows Desktop Search 4.0 used a variant of Jet under the hood.

✅ – Jet’s indexing and page-level locking were good enough for early email stores. microsoft jet database engine

Because modern embedded databases (SQLite, LiteDB, DuckDB) stand on Jet’s shoulders. Jet proved a file-based relational engine could be on a Pentium with 16MB of RAM. ✅ – Even Windows Desktop Search 4

– Microsoft stopped including it with Office/Windows gradually, but its ghost lives on in every Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 connection string. microsoft jet database engine

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