On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Jamie Honan"> > > > What you've described as wanting is probably an RDBM like MySQL or > > Postgres. > > Or perhaps Interbase, which was designed for embedded use as well as your > standard server style stuff. It feels a bit wrong using a massive hulk of a > thing like MySQL or Postgres for what's essentially logging.
Syslog or the qmail version of it spring to mind. They're designed for writing but what if you stuck an indexing routine on it after the write and something to read it back. Also depends on whether the application writes more than it reads etc. > > > How much persistency do you want, how much concurrancy do you want? > > Can it be achieved by writing transactions out to a log? (Do you > > need to do this anyway? Oh by the way, make sure the log writing > > is atomic) -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
