On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Szymon Olewniczak <szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl> wrote: > Which db engines > do you consider of being suckless?
I (as in “myself”, not as in “the suckless community”) think file based storage is a DB that sucks less than most systems out there. However, I would argue that the file abstraction is the important bit, not the implementation (i.e. if you have a file interface that does not rely on usual files can be close enough to the suckless philosophy (depending on the implementation). E.g. procfs is a database of the running processes on top of which is is reasonably easy to building clean, portable scripts and programs that do not suck too much. Other examples: devices in /dev, network connections in Plan9's /net. Of course a crappy fuse implementation exposing a file abstraction after crossing layers of dummy network layers, bloated with huge dynamic dependencies, implemented in a mix of ruby, perl and javascript, does suck! A lot! Cheers, -- ______________ Raphaël Proust
