In computing, Btrieve is a transactional database based on the indexed sequential access method, which is a way to store data for quick retrieval. There have been several versions for DOS, Linux, also for Microsoft Windows, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Novell NetWare.
Originally a registry manager that was published by SoftCraft around the same time as the release of the first IBM PCs. After gaining market share and popularity, it was purchased by Novell for the integration of the Netware operating system. The product could not gain significant market share and, after some reorganization within Novell, the product was made to be developed by a new company known as Btrieve Technologies, Inc. (BTI).
Btrieve was modularized starting with version 6.15 and became one of two that the database centralized into a software interface called the Micro-Kernel Database Engine. The other product was Scalable SQL, a relational database that used the structured query language. After several new releases were released to the company they were renamed to Pervasive Software and now they are sold in Pervasive PSQL. Architecture Main article: Architecture of Btrieve History
Btrieve has owned and developed three different companies: SoftCraft, Novell and Btrieve Technologies, Inc.
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