Extensible Storage Engine

Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) is an embedded key-value ISAM DBMS used in various Microsoft products. This system is sometimes referred to as "JET Blue".

History

ESE was formerly known as Joint Engine Technology (JET) Blue. It was originally developed by Microsoft to replace the JET Red database engine in Access in the 1990s.

Microsoft open-sourced the project in 2021.

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/extensible-storage-engine/extensible-storage-engine
• https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-ese-open-source/

Website

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/extensible-storage-engine/extensible-storage-engine

Source Code

https://github.com/microsoft/Extensible-Storage-Engine

Tech Docs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/extensible-storage-engine/extensible-storage-engine-reference

Developer

Microsoft

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

1994

Former Name

JET Blue

Project Type

Commercial, Open Source

Written in

C++

Supported languages

C, C++

Operating Systems

Windows

Licenses

MIT

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine