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What about a berkeley db ? That seems like it would be good backend here?
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by Illuminatus (Curate) on Sep 12, 2008 at 14:55 UTC
    From everything I have heard, BerkeleyDB would probably be fine as well. I did not mention it because I have not personally used it. I have used both mysql and postgres, so I feel more comfortable recommending them. BerkeleyDB is fast, but has a couple of drawbacks. I don't believe it has network access, so if you want to access the database from a different system, it might not be the best choice.