From: Edgardo Hames <ehames@...>
Date: 2005-02-02T00:25:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Small and simple database?

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:20:45 +0900, Scott Rubin <slr2777@cs.rit.edu> wrote:
> Ok, I want to make a program that requires a database.  But it only requires a
> local database that can reside in a single file.  It doesn't have to be
> relational or anything.  So just about every SQL database is overkill for this
> application.  I thought about something like berkdb and I found ruby-bdb, but it
> is documented poorly and I can't figure out how to use it.  I basically need a
> flat record table which I can query.  I would use csv, but that is actually
> slightly underpowered.
> 

You should probably consider XML or YAML. Would that suit your needs?

Kind Regards,
Ed
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