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One of the benefits of using an embedded database for your apps is the ability to integrate it with native data structures to get the benefits of both worlds.

There are several scenarios where mixing native data and sdb takes sense and brings some goodies to developers.

* stability
* generic apis
* serialization
* interactivity

Most of the time we have to put performance and stability in a balance to choose the option fits better for our needs.

This is where Sdb comes to the rescue, offering some facilities to serialize data from/to strings, verify pointers, formatting structs and more.

The following chapters are going to explain the different APIs and Sdb.Queries involved on this topic.