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Microsoft says goodbye to ESENT and hello to SQLite in Windows 11
For more than 25 years, Microsoft has used ESENT as the basis for its search engine. However, recently the company has been making some changes to Windows 11 and one of them has to do with precisely this.
Microsoft is making changes to increasingly enhance its new operating system. One of the most recent changes has been the introduction of SQLite for its search engine.
Until a few days ago, the company used the Extensible Storage Engine (ESENT), which was in charge of carrying out searches within the operating system.
It is a quite wise decision by Microsoft, since this will allow to have a much more fluid system and much more precise searches.
Without an official announcement so far
At the moment, Microsoft has not commented or said anything about it. However, some people who have tried the latest dev versions have noticed the change.
Others curious have decided to investigate the root of the system and have realized that the .edb format is no longer available, but has been replaced by the.db format, the SQLite format.
With this move, Microsoft retires ESENT who has been present in the system for 25 years. Let us remember that since the operating system made the leap to 32 bits, this company's own database manager has been available.
What is the advantage of SQLite over ESENT?
Perhaps you are wondering about the benefits or how the fact that Microsoft has decided to make this change affects you as a user. Well, this is a change that is not aesthetic, so visually you will not notice differences. You will notice the change in the stability and fluidity that you will have when conducting a search.
SQLite is an ultralight open source library for database management. This is the same one that is often used frequently in mobile applications, so it is quite optimized and takes up the least possible amount of space and resources.
This is not the first time that the company uses this technology in its software, since it is implemented in Skype and has obtained very good results. In addition, other developers also use it, such as Adobe, Mozilla and Open Office.
So, we have that this change is very beneficial for optimization and getting the most out of the operating system. It's quite a strategic change for the company, and it's going to bring a lot of benefits for everyone.
