MaVerick is a MultiValue database management
system. MultiValue databases are said to be one of
the computer industry's best kept secrets. First
appearing over 30 years ago as PICK, they have
continued to evolve through various commercial
vendors, and are still in active development
today. They are very resource friendly, are
incredibly fast, feature a very user friendly
data retrieval and reporting language (variously
called ACCESS or English), and a rapid application
development language based originally on Dartmouth
Basic. The MaVerick project is an attempt to
create an open source variant, written in Java.
