Actian Zen Embedded Database
Zero-Administration, Embedded, Nano-Footprint DBMS
New! Zen Core database for Android
NoSQL and SQL
Hybrid NoSQL/relational database for superfast transactions and standard ANSI SQL access.
Zero Administration
Set it and forget it – no DBA required – completely hidden from the end user.
Small Footprint
Only 2MB client and 30MB sever footprints. Developer configurable installation to select components, silent install and more.
What is Actian Zen Embedded Database?
Actian Zen database family is the most reliable, small-footprint, low-maintenance, high-performance database management system (DBMS) in the world. Actian Zen combines NoSQL programmatic API-based access and SQL relational access for the perfect blend of performance and standard access. Zero DBA design and fantastic backward compatibility (prior versions of PSQL) mean that ISVs support costs are dramatically reduced.
Check out the newest edition – Zen Core database for Android. Footprint under 2MB, available on Android and Android Things, with support for ARM and Intel. Download the community edition. Read the Zen Core database for Android press release.
Read the ZDNet article: Actian and the Zen of IoT Maintenance
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Actian Zen Database Resources
Zero-maintenance, Embedded, Nano-footprint Database
Actian Zen database is the perfect solution for software developers and manufacturers delivering business-critical applications in low or no IT environments. It is one of the most reliable, low maintenance, high-performance database management systems in the world.
Enterprise-class features and security
Cost-effective Actian Zen offers full security, encryption, management and monitoring tools, plus a host of other features you would expect to see in a much more expensive DBMS product.
Stability and Reliability
There’s no doubt why the Windows desktop accounting market uses Actian Zen Enterprise database for Windows, Linux, and MacOS as their database of choice. Actian Zen’s reputation is based on rock solid reliability.
Data Portability
Actian Zen shares a common data type and file format across all Zen database products, so accessing and moving data between an ARM device (like a Raspberry Pi) and Windows or Linux servers requires none of the typical ETL overhead. Just copy files and go.
Ready for Cloud or SaaS
If your application is running on a VM as part of a public, private or hybrid cloud, or if your application is deployed in a way that you don’t want to count or can’t count users, Actian Zen Enterprise database for Vx Server has the right license model for you.
Backwards Compatibility
Actian has an over 30-year history of reliable database upgrades. Actian Zen delivers years of backward compatibility, making moves to new versions a snap.
Zero Database Administration
Set it and forget it. Most SMBs don’t have or want a DBA. Actian Zen Embedded database is built for environments where users don’t have the resources to manage a database. We don’t require consultants and don’t need constant DBA supervision. Actian Zen just runs, and runs, and runs.
New Tech with No Changes to Your Application
Actian Zen enables ISVs to take advantage of new hardware architecture, OS platforms, and computing environments (64-bit, multi-core, VM, Cloud) without application changes. If your customer base is in the tens of thousands, enabling moves to new platforms with no new application code is a game changing advantage.
Features
Actian Zen Editions
Zen Enterprise database for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
6 – 500 Users
Client/Server configuration useful for mid sized office to enterprise. Includes Vx Server (unlimited users) for SaaS, Cloud or applications where licensing by the number of users or cores is a challenge.
Zen Edge database for Mobile and IoT
1-10 Users
Reduced footprint for Linux, Raspbian, Windows IoT Core, and Windows Nano Server. Ideal embedded solution for mobile and IoT developers working with low cost commodity hardware like Raspberry Pi and other single board computers.
Zen Workgroup database for Windows
1-5 Users
Low cost edition ideal for small offices and truly embedded use cases, such as medical devices.
Zen Core database for Android
Single-User
Nano-footprint for Android OS. Ideal embedded solution for mobile and IoT developers working with Android or Android Things operating environments and the Android SDK.
Add-On Software
AuditMaster
Provides a secure audit trail with a comprehensive logging system that captures the full range of events in your database and stores database records before and after changes occur, whether the transactions originate from third-party applications or from direct changes to data.
Backup Agent
Set and manage Continuous Operations on your open database files so that your data is still available from your application during your backup. Once the backup procedure is complete, stopping Backup Agent automatically takes the files out of Continuous Operations and rolls in all the changes captured during the backup.
DataExchange
Meets your most important data replication needs. DataExchange Real-Time Backup Edition manages remote backup of key application data to reduce disaster-related downtime. DataExchange Data Synchronization Edition maintains a consistent set of data across multiple applications.
Use Cases
Actian Zen Embedded database supports both NoSQL and SQL database access, giving developers the ability to deliver performance for embedded business applications and provide flexibility and standard SQL access for reporting and BI features.
Relational Data Access using SQL:
- Flexible architecture that scales from single-user environments to large client/server systems without additional coding
- Full support for SQL
- Direct ODBC and JDBC access to the database engine
Operational Benefits
Developer Features
NoSQL Access:
- Direct data access without relational overhead
- Multiple developer APIs (C/C++, Java, perl, PHP, Python)
- Exceptional transaction performance
Business Critical from the Office to the Enterprise
Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on Actian Zen based applications to run their business every day. Reliability, low TCO and zero-dba characteristics are why Actian Zen Embedded database has been the choice of global ISVs and end users selling and supporting business critical applications to SMB’s, enterprises and everyone in between.
“Vx Server is a good fit for ISVs, OEMs, and IT users who wish to implement an orderly migration to the cloud. It provides the tools, the technology, and the licensing model to make the cloud implementation of a database simple. It is designed to accommodate the customer’s environment of choice, whether that is: – On a server in the data center – In a private cloud – In the public cloud – In a hybrid cloud environment.”
– Robin Bloor, The Bloor Group