[ILUG] more than gdbm, less than postgres

[Michael Megan]

Caolan McNamara wrote:
> 
> I looking around for a smallish database library to interface
> with c to handle a small dataset. gdbm would be fine, except
> that I want the lib to handle sorting of the data and searching
> using multiple fields but the dbm families are just a hash
> storage mechanism with none of that frivolous stuff.
> 

You might try xdb at:

http://linux.techass.com/projects/xdb/

It's non-client-server and non-SQL and supports the sorting and
searching operations you mention, however, it uses a C++ classes to
represent tables and fields etc. so you would have to write your own api
if you want C compatibility.  My interest in this was primarily to
access old dBase style tables.

Regards
Michael Megan
mikemj at indigo.ie