Equinox.
The host database powering SMARTT is Equinox from one of the oldest names in the UK PC database software field, Compsoft plc. We have used Compsoft software products for many years, dating back as far as the days of the Commodore Pet, and have the greatest possible confidence in their software, which we have used for all manner of projects.
Whilst Equinox itself is little known to the general public, it is in fact widely used, and we consider it one of the most powerful RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools available today.
Whilst Equinox has always incorporated its own extremely robust proprietary data storage format combining high security and excellent performance, the latest version of Equinox (Equinox 4) also offers the larger user (such as Local Authority and Corporate users) alternate choices of industry-standard SQL Server or Oracle back-end database storage options where this is preferred, and we can configure SMARTT to use any of these options, or even a mixed environment, where special requirements dictate such a need.