Re: Database survey

This maybe completely dumb but could openldap provide a solution for a
datastore ? That is assuming the 'L' is lightweight enough and you can
query it sufficiently.

  -- mallum ( who has little if any experience with LDAP )

on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 05:31:36PM +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:
> I just brwosed the net a bit and was looking for a proper database we
> could use and here are my current results and comments:
>
> SQLite
> http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/
> The original idea to use but as Alan has correctly pointed out will
> make some things difficult because it does not provide a client/server
> concept (change notification is one of the problems).
>
> MySQL
> http://www.mysql.org/
> In general a full blown RDBMS system but now also has an embedded
> server feature using a library.
> For me it is not completely clear if the embedded server does support
> multiple clients in the way we need it. Additionally MySQL is licensed
> under the GPL and binding to a GPL'ed library opens up new problems :(
>
> PostgreSQL
> http://www.postgresql.org/
> Only available as full blown RDBMS. Supposedly not suited for a PDA.
>
> GNU SQL Server
> http://www.ispras.ru/~kml/gss/
> Client/server RDBMS system, maybe smaller than PostgreSQL, have to
> evaluate this one.
>
> Gadfly
> http://www.chordate.com/kwParsing/gadfly.html
> RDBMS system written in Python. IMHO we should try to find a
> native (C) implementation in order to be as efficient as possible since
> the DB system will become an integral part of GPE.
>
> So far not very motivating.
> Does anyone else have more alternatives or more insight into the above?
> CU
> nils faerber
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Received on Sun Dec 30 2001 - 09:31:14 EST