What exactly do you want your database to do? Should it just store the flat content of the files, or should it hold them in a more parsed format? How does what you want compare to just each of the files in a directory? Relational databases, which are what most people think about when 'database' is said nowadays, can easily store data in a non-flat way, and support powerful queries on it. There are still other ideas of 'database', and implementations of such ideas floating around. To answer your question, I believe that some flavour of dbm is available (and standard) on Perl for Windows.