data-aware

I gave up on Delphi's DBGrid nearly a decade ago because it is simply no good. Since then, I have used Virtual TreeView which offers a lot of value but it has a few issues. Like the current state of development (e.g. None) and the fact that there is no good data-bound version. DevExpress's QuantumGrid is famous for the rich feature set but is really quite expensive. I reckon that its huge feature set is probably overkill for 95% of the general use cases for data-bound grid controls. Does anyone know of a data-bound grid control that sports the following features: Checkboxes for boolean fields.

I want to know your opinion about using data-aware components in projects. Which are the 'strength' and 'weak' points of developing applications(win32 and web), by using Delphi and data-aware components(from Delphi's standard suite or third-party)? Using FireBird I've worked a lot with IBObjects, which are a mature suite of components and worked very well. But there are also a lot of other RDBMS (MySQL, MSSQL, DB2, Oracle, SQLite, Nexus, Paradox, Interbase, FireBird etc). If you have developed big projects, on which you've used a lot data-aware components please answer with the database type