Jeff Waugh was once rumoured to have said: > <quote who="Jamie Honan"> > So, on that point, what Free Software non-overkill-database systems are > recommended by the SLUG coding crack troops? > > If I want some fairly simple storage that handles locking, multiple > readers/writers, hopefully some forms of indexing, useful from > Python/Perl/PHP, but DON'T require a RDBMS (or faux-RDBMS with SQL querying, > MySQL fans)... What should I look into? > > GDBM or Berkeley DB? (Oh, the pain!) Others?
<fanclub target="tridge"> tdb was written explicitly so tridge had a lightweight `database' that supported multiple readers and writers, and record level locking (IIRC). Its part of the samba3 cvs tree, but is easily extracted. Compared to GDBM's performance, its a little slower, but you get record level locking, rather than file level locking. And you can also run tdb entirely in core. </fanclub> Whee! C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
