From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-08-19T02:06:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Filesystem Database

Yottameter wrote:
> I'd like to use a database, but my IT department won't install mysql. I 
> know perl has a db interface that is stored on the filesystem. Is FSDB 
> the equivalent for Ruby? Is that what people recommend using for db's 
> stored on a filesystem?
> 
> Thanks!

Unfortunately, FSDB doesn't have a standard db interface. It's more of a 
persistence mechanism than a full database with queries and so on. It 
can be useful, but it's not a replacement for mysql.

Have you looked at sqlite?

There is also kirbybase, though I don't know what it's interface looks like.

Can you build mysql in your home dir?

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