Apollo COM > Features

•Provides high-performance support for FoxPro, Clipper, and HiPer-SIx tables, memos, and index formats for COM based environments such as VC++, CA-Visual Objects, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++Builder, Microsoft Office, Visual InterDev, Harbour Project (Clipper for Windows) and others.

•Small self-contained footprint (~1 MB of files to deploy)

•Does not require additional database engine files (i.e. DAO, Jet, BDE, ODBC not required).

•Apollo SQL allows developers to use SQL queries for managing data

•Client/server ready! Seamless Client/Server migration to Apollo Database Server. Add client/server support by connecting to the Apollo Database Server using the exact same code set for local and peer-to-peer configurations

•No end-user configuration required

•File and record-level data encryption

•File and record-level locking for both Windows and DOS simultaneous transactions

•Built-in Mach SIx Query Optimizer - Similar to Microsoft's RushMore Technology used in FoxPro and MS-Access - allows filters and non-SQL queries to execute at blazing speeds

•Index Scoping instantly filters indexed results

•User-Defined Function (UDF) support in index/query expressions

•Roll-Your-Own (RYO) Queries and Indexes - Completely ad-hoc queries with no fixed conditions

•Supports the ability to flip existing indexes between ascending and descending order.

•Conditional Indexing allows indexes to selectively include data

•Low-level power using direct calls to the Apollo API functions