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>>Visual FreePro 2.0 has a new database engine design that I have not released publicly, called "Journey." It does things differently, and queries will not take as long as they do today in virtually every case.
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>What do you mean by "does things differently"

Well ... it doesn't execute queries, but is able to process the equivalent of query data. Cryptic enough for you? :-) I should note also that Visual FreePro will also continue to be able to execute general SQL queries as well ... they'll just become less necessary when people start using Journey.

>Any ETA date?

Hire me to work 60 hours per week, and you can have it by this time next year with only me working on it (James 4:15). If other people help, some time sooner.

> Are you familiar with the columnstore index in SQL 2012/2014, and the new in-memory
> OLTP table capability (Hekaton) in SQL 2014?

No.