Linter is a Russian DBMS compliant with the SQL:2003 standard[1] and supporting the majority of operating systems, among them Windows, various versions of Unix, QNX, and others.

The system enables transparent interaction between the client applications and the database server functioning in different hardware and software environments.

Linter is the only DBMS certified by FSTEC of Russia as compliant with Class 2 data security requirements and Level 2 of undeclared feature absence control.

By 1983, according to a state order, the Voronezh construction design office "Systemprogramm" had successfully completed the relational DBMS "BARS" under the real-time operating system "RAFOS" (RT-11 prototype) for computers of the SM set.

The system covered a wide spectrum of hardware and software platforms, from "Electronika-85" and Intel 8086 control modules to SM1702 and "Electronika-82" computer complexes and their VAX prototypes.