[ILUG] more than gdbm, less than postgres

[Fergal Daly]

At 19:41 23/06/00, kevin lyda wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 06:21:45PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
> > You could try http://www.bowerbird.com.au/XDBM/ this is an XML based
> > database. There's another one that I had a good look at before that seemed
> > quite interesting, it was announced on linuxdev.net but their search
> > facility is brutal so I can't find it again,
>
>dear god.  an xml based database.  speed and performance don't just go
>out the window, they leave earth's gravitational field.

I think they use a binary format for the database, it just has a lot of XML 
input/output facilities.

There seems to be bog all in between gdbm and SQL server for Linux. I tried 
freshmeat without much luck, I hadn't realised how bad their search 
facility was. "database" turned up 641 hits so I tried "database library" 
and got 1400. "+database +library" gave nothing and "database and library" 
gave around 8000!! You'd think such a high profile site would have a decent 
search engine (and would eliminate "and" from it's list of keywords!)

Fergal