On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:26:21 +0200, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:02:30 +0100, Shaun McDonald >>> SQLite isn't designed for huge databases like OpenStreetMap. You could
>>> get away with a city or small region, but more than that, you will get >>> the slowness that you are seeing. >>> http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q19 and some other FAQs on that page. >>> You are much better using Postgres, or even MySQL. >> >> Is there ANY embedded database out there that can handle the planet? >> Anything that does not require the (unskilled) user of a program to >> install a local database-server first? > > MonetDB can be running in embedded mode ;) >From what I can see at http://monetdb.cwi.nl/projects/monetdb/SQL/Documentation/Embedded-Server.html#Embedded-Server the "embedded"-mode is still a server, just for embedded systems. I was talking about having the database as a library be a part of the program. Nothing to install or to start separately. Marcus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
