Key features of the Recital database include:

• SQL-92 and a broad subset of ANSI SQL 99, as well as extensions
• Cross-platform support
• Stored procedures
• Triggers
• Cursors
• Updatable Views
• System Tables
• Query caching
• High-performance
• Single-User and Multi-User
• Multi-Process
• ACID Transactions
• Referential Integrity
• Cascading Updates and Deletes
• Multi-table Joins
• Row-level Locking
• BLOBs (Binary Large Objects)
• UDFs (User Defined Functions)
• OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing)
• Drivers for ODBC, JDBC, and .NET
• Sub-SELECTs (i.e. nested SELECTs)
• Embedded database library
• Database timelines providing data undo functionality
• Fault tolerant clustering support
• Hot backup