Valentina Release 17.4

Valentina Release 17.4 adds Parquet support, first free ValentinaDB extension

Also extends ODBC support for DuckDB and SQLite.

ValentinaDB

ValentinaDB is Paradigma Software advanced, object relational database and available in ValentinaDB Server (a part of Valentina Server) and ValentinaDB ADKs (developer components for adding runtime database support to applications).

Paradigma Software officially added support for custom extensions (including C, C++, Python, and JavaScript) to create custom functions and procedures in Valentina 16, which was released in September 2025. Paradigma Software offers code examples, including free extensions on the Paradigma Software repository on GitHub.

Valentina Studio

Valentina Studio is the free, all purpose database management tool suite. Valentina Studio PRO adds more powerful diagramming features, more powerful visual builder tools for databases, forms creation, reports designer and more. Improvements include:

  • [New] [Studio] Open existing or create new Parquet files. Create, modify and delete fields in the Schema Editor. View, sort, filter data in the Data Editor without committing changes. Execute any queries in the SQL Editor.
  • [New] [Studio PRO] Includes all features in Studio. Commit changes in the Data Editor. Import CSV files in the Import Wizard. Move data in or out using the Data Transfer feature.

Valentina Reports ADK & Reports Server

Valentina Reports ADKs allow developers to embed reporting into their applications. ADKs are available for many native development systems including C/C++, Java, .NET, Swift, Xojo and many more on Windows, macOS & Linux.

Valentina Reports Server is a part of Valentina Server and available for Windows, Linux, macOS and Raspberry PI.

  • [New][VReport] [New] Parquet format files now can be used as a data source for reports

Valentina ODBC

Valentina ODBC is available on the following operation systems: Windows for 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64), and ARM64 applications with support local ValentinaDB files and ValentinaDB Server (a part of Valentina Server). ODBC support now extended to:

  • [New] Valentina DuckDB Server
  • [New] Valentina SQLite Server
  • [New] DuckDB local db file
  • [New] SQLite local db file

This release is immediately available for download on the Paradigma Software website. See the original announcement on the official Paradigma Software forum.