I am in the same sort of boat. I am making an application that would use a database file on a shared drive. Maybe 10-20 people would be writing to it during any given day. It seems like Valentina would be a good choice for this, but, as silly as it sounds, I don't have a practical funding mechanism to pay for the $200 expense.
I might try doing it with SQLite, but this conversation, and a few previous conversations related to this topic, are making me nervous about doing that. 2010/11/23 Björnke von Gierke <[email protected]> > I think fredrik just uses installed programs and a sqlite file on a network > share. Which is a smart way to circumvent "no server" rules, and sqlite > seems to be able to do that. > > As for rev not being able to react to multiple clients on sockets, that is > not how it works. if you do not use blocking wait, and/or have huge and long > calculations, everything should work, for quite a few clients. > > the most chatrev-clients ever where about 25 (over the internet, not a > private network), and it didn't even slow down at all, running from a 400 > mhz pentium II with 700 mb (or similar) of ram. > > I'd guess you can go into the low hundreds before needing to do special > things, as long as everyone can be served within a few milliseconds or so. > > > > On 23 Nov 2010, at 19:04, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: > > >> Oh, and the reason I have to use SQLite is that I can't run any database > >> servers (the IT department would be.... annoyed to say the least). > > > > Once again: > > Fredrick thinks that IT department will not allow > > ANY db server. > > > > -- > > official ChatRev page: > http://bjoernke.com?target=chatrev <http://bjoernke.com/?target=chatrev> > > Chat with other RunRev developers: > go stack URL "http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/chatrev1.3b3.rev"; > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Do all things with love _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
