Postgres will return too much by default on big tables

What do you mean with "return too much"? That sounds serious.

And I think you give not enough credit for the freedom of the software. Oracle has a great database but it's ridiculously expensive to run even a single instance, and Mysql and BerkeleyDB are pawns in Oracle hands. In my opinion that is a *very* good reason not to use them (I kicked them out when Oracle took them over).

With regard to cdb: its main annoyance is that it is for databases that do not change (this is by design: it's after all named cdb: "constant database"). Perhaps it is fits the OPs requirements but it is often a pain (kicked that out, too ;-))

SQLite is nice but pretty simple (and was and is inspired by PostgreSQL, its author told us at PGCon - see here, the talk by Richard Hipp).

Yeah, I agree: Too many factors to think about :)

And IMHO PostgreSQL does not suck. :)

In reply to Re^4: Need DBM file that holds data up to 50,000 bytes by erix
in thread Need DBM file that holds data up to 50,000 bytes by bulrush

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