From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2005-03-03T01:59:51+09:00
Subject: Re: A wish: Simple database

Hal Fulton wrote:
> Hi, all...
> 
> I sometimes wish for a very simple database with the
> following features:
> 
> 1. Distributed as part of Ruby
> 2. Need not store entire db in memory
> 3. No SQL requirement
> 4. No special efficiency requirement
> 5. Available cross-platform
> 6. Database files are readable cross-platform
> 
> Typically I use DBM in this case. But it doesn't
> meet (5) and (6), since it's not there on Windows
> and the files can't be moved even across Linux
> systems.
> 
> A simple marshal would be fine, but it violates (2).
> I believe PStore would also?

Something like FSDB?

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=fsdb

Theoretically, it could be imported into Ruby if the author and matz 
would agree (and there's need for it in the base distribution).

Regards,

   Michael