WOW! that looks like just what i want!

Although i'm not very experienced with databases not running on webservers, i can gather from the description of it that it's a small mySQL engine that is quite fast and can be run and closed without having to have some type of service up all the time?

I'm going to have to do some research about this, but thanks a lot!

I'm designing an american football management sim, it's going to be free and open-source (working title: Free Football Sim). It will be coded in java (of course ). I need a big time data storage solution for all the stats and ratings that i'm going to be tracking (think scalability; 100 years of statistical information about thousands of players who have been on any of up to 40 teams). I know some SQL, so mySQL has popped into my mind as a very desirable tool.

Is there a way that i can set up a mySQL database using my game's installer  that won't have to run all the time? Perhaps a database with a small footprint that i can start up when i start the game and close when i close the game?

Any help would be much appreciated.