[geeks] Desktops

[Dave Kimmel]

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Ideally the similar solution would be backend independent, but we still lack
> a good database for single user purposes (or single user at a time), short of
> requiring mysql or postgres be installed and administered.  Sure, the is GDB
> and BerkeleyDB, etc, but those don't provide enough features, like querying
> via SQL commands.

I seem to recall that InterBase used to be like that.  It'd store all its
stuff in a single file, without a "server" (I think there was a locking
daemon), but it was a real SQL database.  It did tables, views, stored
procs, and probably some other stuff that I never touched.

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca