in reply to Free, simple databases?

SQLite is faster than Postgresql and MySQL and there is DBD::SQLite for Perl access

Carter's compass: I know I'm on the right track when by deleting something, I'm adding functionality

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Re^2: Free, simple databases?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 16, 2003 at 19:25 UTC

    While SQLite is dead useful it's not always faster. If you've just got a single process reading and writing data it probably will be. If you have multiple processes simultaneously reading and writing from the same table it probably won't (database level locking and all that...)