libesedb is a library to access the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database File (EDB) format.

The ESE database format is used in may different applications like Windows Search, Windows Mail, Exchange, Active Directory, etc.

Project information:

* Status: experimental
* Licence: LGPLv3+

Work in progress:

* Refactor to allow libesedb handle +10G databases

Planned:

* Multi-threading support

Also see:

* Forensic analysis of the Windows Search database: https://github.com/libyal/documentation/blob/master/Forensic%20analysis%20of%20the%20Windows%20Search%20database.pdf
* Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database File Knowledge Base: https://github.com/libyal/esedb-kb

For more information see:

* Project documentation: https://github.com/libyal/libesedb/wiki/Home
* How to build from source: https://github.com/libyal/libesedb/wiki/Building