The data core inside our platform
Enterprise data architecture. Consumer-grade simplicity.
A single binary. Your own data vault. Zero database headaches.
Behind every great application is a database — yet for most software that database is a heavy, separate system you must license, install, secure, tune and babysit. We took a different path. We engineered DAT, a purpose-built embedded database engine that lives inside our platform. No separate servers. No licensing fees. No database administrators. Just fast, safe, portable data.
The database isn’t a component you bolt on — it’s woven into the core.
Most competitors bolt their product onto a general-purpose database — PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server or MongoDB — that was designed to be everything to everyone. That generality is exactly the problem: separate servers to run, licences to pay, DBAs to hire, version drift to manage, and every tenant’s data crammed into shared tables where one customer’s growth slows down all the others.
DAT is purpose-built for multi-tenant business applications. Because we designed the engine around this job — isolated tenants, portable datasets, embedded speed, effortless backups — it delivers what a general-purpose database cannot: one physical database file per tenant, copy-a-file portability, and an engine that ships compiled inside a single application binary. Same proven fundamentals as the giants; none of the operational weight.
The engineering pedigree of the enterprise database world — without the servers, licences or complexity.
MVCC
DAT is powered by Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) — the same architecture that underpins the world’s most trusted database systems, including Oracle and PostgreSQL. This is not experimental technology; it is the gold-standard concurrency model that has run mission-critical banking, government and enterprise systems for decades. We took that battle-tested foundation and re-engineered it to be embedded, portable and effortless.
DAT is accessible through standard database clients — including the familiar MySQL client — and the reporting and integration tools that connect through it.
Cutting-edge under the hood. Familiar at your fingertips.
MVCC means readers never block writers and writers never block readers. Hundreds of people work simultaneously with no collisions and no slowdowns — everyone always sees consistent, accurate data.
Your team never waits in line for their data.
Most platforms cram every customer’s data into shared tables, separated only by a hidden ID column — one bad query or overlooked permission and data leaks between tenants. DAT gives every company its own database file.
Your data lives in its own vault — not a shared filing cabinet.
A customer’s whole workspace is a self-contained, portable bundle — a freedom no traditional database can offer.
Migrate, back up or hand over everything by copying a single file.
Protection is built into the engine, not layered on afterwards.
Your data is protected at the deepest level — the file itself.
Because DAT is file-based and fully versioned, protection is built in — not sold separately.
Bulletproof backups without a bulletproof budget.
The engine actively guards your data so your team never has to.
The engine guards your data so your team doesn’t have to.
DAT is an embedded, in-process engine — your data lives right beside the application logic. No network round-trip to a distant server on every request; reads resolve straight through indexes to exactly the right record. The result is desktop-fast responsiveness at server scale.
| The old way (general-purpose DB) | The DAT way (purpose-built) |
|---|---|
| Separate database server to license | Built into a single binary |
| A DBA on the payroll | No DBA required |
| Shared multi-tenant tables | One database per tenant |
| Complex backup tooling | Copy-a-file backups and snapshots |
| Network latency on every query | In-process, index-direct speed |
| Painful data migrations | Portable by design |
| Proprietary query tools | Works with standard MySQL clients |
One binary to deploy. Zero database licences. Zero DBAs to hire.
DAT is the proprietary embedded database engine that powers the FlexApp platform. It is built on the same MVCC foundation trusted by Oracle and PostgreSQL, is accessible through the database tools you already use, and is multi-tenant by design, isolated by default and portable by nature.
No. DAT ships compiled inside the FlexApp application binary, so there is no separate database server to license, install or tune, and no database administrator to hire.
Yes. DAT is accessible through standard database clients, including the familiar MySQL client, with full SQL support — JOINs, sub-queries, JSON and transactions — so reporting and integration tools connect as they always have.
Every company gets its own physical database file, so one tenant’s data cannot touch another’s. Files are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and protected by token-based authentication with envelope-encrypted keys.
Because DAT is file-based and fully versioned, it provides atomic, near-instant point-in-time snapshots and scheduled automated backups with integrity checksums, and restores are clean and reliable.
See how DAT keeps FlexApp fast, isolated and secure — in a demo with our team.