Suggest a good database? (criteria within)

I currently use a Microsoft Access to store data, which I then use to generate a static website using a Java application I wrote.
The reason I use Java so heavily is that it is platform-agnostic; I hate losing code when a platform (DOS, Windows 3.1, Win9x, soon WinNT) goes away.
Now, building an application I'd like to sustain for many years in a portable language and then using a MS database for the data is obviously quite silly. I'd like to find a database which runs on most platforms (especially Windows and Linux, my current platform and the one I will eventually move to) and which has easily portable data files. Access is easy - one .mdb file holds everything I want to move. Do other databases support this?
MySQL seems to have lots of required bits - ACL's etc - that I'm not interested in, and occasionally a x.y version db fails to work with an x.y+1 or x+1.y version. Not good.
Any suggestions? I'm curious about a db called Cloudscape - has anyone done anything with it?
thanks for your time, folks,
Andrew

I have no direct suggestion except to note the fact even though a
specific database may be currently seem to be the answer does in
any way guarantee what will happen in the future. You will only
be betting on the most likely choice. Many databases that have
seemed to be the best bet have effectively vanished in the past.
I do suggest you design your product so the database functions
all are localized in single blocks of code and the functions
used throughout your code. This means if at a later date you
need to change the database the changes you require will all
occur only in those areas.
You must realize that the long term success of programming
products do not rely on the fact they are currently the best thing
since sliced bread. Marketing and the market place (customers) drive
the most successful products. Not I said successful not best. You may
find you want to change to another database product long before the one
you are using has ceased to exist.
rykk

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