From: linux-il_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il
Date: Fri 18 Jun 2004 - 22:34:23 IDT
Shlomi - I think you are confusing Berkeley DB
(http://www.sleepycat.com/) which is a full-fledged SQL relational
database used, among others, as the basis for SubVersion, and the
plain unix DBM files (the closest refference I could find is the GNU
implementation at http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html)
Check again and let me know which one of us got it wrong.
Cheers,
--Amos
Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Thursday 17 June 2004 21:58, linux-il_at_amos.mailshell.com wrote:
>
>>BTW - just to make sure people don't miss on other alternatives -
>>there are also Berkeley DB and Firebird as good complete SQL opensource
>>database implementations.
>>
>
>
> Just a correction - Berkeley DB is not an _SQL_ database implementation. It's
> not even a relational database. What it does is just map arbitrary binary
> keys to arbitrary binary values. You can build relational database (and
> theoretically SQL as well) capabilities above it, but it doesn't have it
> built-in.
>
> Another thing that separates it from most other SQL servers is that it is
> filesystem based and not networked.
>
> If you're looking for a relational database implementation that is not SQLed,
> there are several XBase (formerly dBase) implementations around. SQLite is a
> lightweight file-system based SQL implementation. (which isn't networked). If
> you're looking for something that is networked, you should look at MySQL,
> PostgreSQL, Firebird, MaxDB (formerly SAP-DB), or any of the other
> *networked* *SQL* open-source implementations, or commercial, non-OS ones
> like Oracle, IBM DB2 or Informix.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
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