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Actian Zen is reliable, small-footprint, low-maintenance, high-performance database management system (DBMS)

Note: Documentation for older releases can be found here.

Zen v16.0

What's New:Zen v16 introduces several new features and enhancements, including support for keys longer than 255 bytes in File Format 16.0, a new data synchronization utility.

Zen v15.0

What's New: Zen v15 introduces several new features and enhancements, including Platform Support, and ADO.NET Support.

Zen v14.2

What's New: Zen v14 offers the following new features and changes including ADO.NET Entity Framework Core and PDAC for RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney.

Featured topics

Getting Started with Zen

Provides information about common installation issues, general network protocol information, and Zen optional features.

Install Zen

Provides installation and upgrading of the Zen database system and also provide information about common installation issues, general network protocol information, and Zen optional features.

DDF Builder User's Guide

Provides an overview of the utility, components that make up the graphical user interface, and tutorials to aide you when working with the various issues DDF Builder is designed to detect.

Advanced topics

User Guide

Introduces you to Zen utilities for Server and Workgroup products and shows how to perform basic tasks in the application.

Developer Reference

Introduces you to Zen database design and concepts at the transactional and relational levels. It explains the fundamentals about how to develop applications that use Zen interfaces.

Distributed Tuning Objects (DTO) Guide

Designed for any user who is familiar with Zen and wants to develop administrative applications using the Distributed Tuning Objects.