“I do not use Valentina but even me looking at Omega bundle was confused about what Valentina is and offers”
Valentina Studio Pro is an all purpose database management product that works with most popular databases. It includes a visual Report Designer for creating projects containing reports. Those reports can be used with the Valentina Reports ADK reports engine. The same reports can also be loaded up on Valentina Server. It has a bunch of other features including diagramming, forms design and more. Reports and forms have their own programmatic models. We get a lot of PostgreSQL users and those cross-grading from Navicat or other database management tools.
Valentina Reports ADK for Xojo. This is a reports engine that can be compiled into your app. It uses projects containing reports. It works with most popular databases. This gets used by a lot of developers that need to ‘print’ reports, like specialized financial apps, accounting type apps and even label printing. You can print to PDF, text, images, etc. If you are looking for a Crystal Reports type solution then Valentina Reports is a good option.
ValentinaDB ADK for Xojo. This is our own proprietary database engine that is extremely fast and flexible. ValentinaDB is also supported on Valentina Server. ValentinaDB is Ruslan’s first born and it has over two decades of refinements. For some, it makes for a very nice internal data format. For others, it works exceedingly well for financial or medical apps that need the speed it offers. There is a shortlist of advantages at the bottom of this page.
Valentina Server. This is a standalone server product. The VCLIENT part of every ADK can work with it. It includes:
- ValentinaDB Server. A multiuser server version of ValentinaDB
- Valentina SQLite Server. Just like it sounds like, and it can leverage both Reports and Forms
- Valentina Reports Server. A multiuser server for our reporting technologies
- Valentina Forms Server. Forms are stored in projects and can be opened remotely on Valentina Server from within any version of Valentina Studio
Yes, Id like for us to do a better job on all the features and uses of Valentina Studio. When I have time, Ill hit a page or two (esp if someone ends up asking what the heck it means) check it, and either get help from an engineer to provide better technical descriptions and then polish it again, or just fix what I can. Now and then we’ll have an intern do some fixes as well. At some point Id like to be able to devote the time of a single human to the docs full time.