Simply on the basis that as a full-featured RDBMS it is a very complex bit of kit and vastly over-specified for this particular requirement. And Paradigma don't promote it as an embedded engine on their website: they focus on the speed. Paradigma themselves say that data corruption can occur if the host computer crashes:
http://www.paradigmasoft.com/faq/kernel.html#safe_data
Crashing is a not-unusual occurrence on Windoze! An RDBMS designed for embedded use would use a technique such as journaling to self-recover from such a crash.
I've never experienced a data corruption of a Valentina database and I've been using it for several years now across several product releases. Sure it could happen, but I guess at this level the same could be said of a Revolution stack (if Windows crashed at the precise moment Revolution was saving the stack). All this being said, Valentina may be excessive for your requirements. I just wanted to make clear that in my experience the data safety issue you describe is not something I would be particuarly concerned about in a real world setting.
Rodney
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