✅ – Even Windows Desktop Search 4.0 used a variant of Jet under the hood.
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Before SQL Server Express, before LocalDB, even before .NET... there was .
Because modern embedded databases (SQLite, LiteDB, DuckDB) stand on Jet’s shoulders. Jet proved a file-based relational engine could be on a Pentium with 16MB of RAM.
✅ – Jet’s indexing and page-level locking were good enough for early email stores.