On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 02:28:44PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 02/27/2017 02:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. What is a functional equivalent in the > > Debian repository? > > Well, I've never used DBaseII, but if you want a small relational > database, take a look at SQLite. There are bindings into most > languages and there's a command line client. The storage is simple > (from an end-user perspective): each database is just a different > file. There's also a GUI called 'sqlitebrowser' which is in Debian, > but I've never used that. There are also other GUIs out there not > part of Debian, which you can install manually.
SQLite for really minimal, PostgreSQL for everything else. -dsr-
