From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T08:32:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Pointers for Ruby compatible DBase engine

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Randy Lawrence wrote:

> Fascinating stuff!  Do you recommend pstore or madeline?

pstore is so dang simple - must be 300 lines of code - and i like the
simplicity.  madeline is more fully featured and should perform better though,
it sounds like that will not matter in your case since both are plenty fast
for smallish data sets.  development is quicker with pstore since you don't
have to write command objects, but not terribly so.

> Is this "production-ready" based on your experiences?

define 'production'.  i've used in code for two or three years without
problems, like i said, it's so simply there is not much to go wrong.  it's
been behind cgi programs, scripts, and part of an offline mass-storage
inventory system and functioned flawlessly.

> Thanks for the tip.

no problem.  sqlite IS great if you want sql and i would reccomend that.  on
the otherhand i've had more problems with it that pstore: 2 or 3 as compared
to zero.

cheers.

-a
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