NDataStore

I'm listening to Steve Shaughnessey talk about NDataStore, Borland's .NET native DB server. Jens Ole Lauridsen took the front end of a Java compiler, removed the byte code emitter, and converted it to emit C# code. Steve and Jens tweaked the conversion until they could build NDataStore from the JDataStore source code. NDataStore beats MySQL in the benchmarks they've tried. Read the full article for more information.
http://blogs.teamb.com/CraigStuntz/archive/2004/09/13/BorCon2004NDataStore.aspx