[H-GEN] Re: Database for Linux Desktop Applications

[ben.carlyle at invensys.com]

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G'day,

I know this is a late reply. My mail system here at work is horribly 
unreliable when it comes to external mail.

My preference for embedded databases is sqlite (www.sqlite.org). It suits 
my purposes because it's embedded, fast, and simple. It's also public 
domain (not open source) so that's an excellent feature for the kind of 
work I'm doing. It's portable, too. I've developed a historical data 
system based on this database for my commercial applications and couldn't 
find anything else on the market that could match a quarter of the 
performance it could muster for the kind of work I was doing (mostly 
inserts). It supports "most of SQL92".

Anyway. It makes quite a few significant simplifications which may or may 
not cause you problems, but it's a very well-thought-through package. It's 
also got quite a lot of drivers for various environments.

Benjamin.





"Lawson, Gavin" <gavin.lawson at qr.com.au>
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Is there an open source database that would be useful for a desktop
application?  The equivalent database in Windows would be the Jet Engine,
such as you get with MDAC_TYP.EXE. 

I have briefly looked at products such as MySql, but I was hoping to avoid
the "server" type of database.  <snip>



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