Taking SQL CE out, are there any databases that would be better than Access, be quicker & faster that wouldn't need to be installed?

And to answer Grimfort: No didn't read the link I actually missed it when i first saw your post, I appologize, going to read it now. To the 2nd part of your post, yes, but they say to copy the files to the directory which I'd not like to do and have to answer why I had to have so many DLLs. Would rather those DLLs be stored inside my exe.