I have to say... this is pretty compelling:

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I mean, only a 500KB footprint for an embedded client full-featured RDBMS (RI, triggers, snapshot isolation level transaction, the works), no installation woes, has a .NET Data Provider, full text search, can migrate up to SQL Server, and future version will provide 'stored code' (presumably CLR-based stored procs). Pretty impressive. Will have to examine further.
- posted by Xavier @ 10:46 PM