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Relevant for your comment as well as others, RavenDB uses Esent as backend: https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/tree/master/Raven.Storage... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine

http://trycatchfail.com/blog/post/Alternatives-to-Relational...

Notice "DivanDB" in the blogpost :).

so, there it is.

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Sweet baby Jesus, RavenDB is Microsoft Access with JSON on top! I'm all kinds of conflicted now :)

There are two MS "JET" database implementations. One that runs access, and then this one. I think this one is commonly referred to as JET blue. The Access one is called JET Red. This is outlined in the wikipedia article linked in the parent.

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