Dear Monks,

I'm writing a small ajax responder that will need to drop into a webserver which I have absolutly no control over (no shell access), is a different architecture (Solaris on a sparc) than I develop with, and has a very default perl install. Execution under CGI does not allow me to write to a file.

I've got a very simple data requirement. I need indexed access to a specific row (not range) of data. I've got 50,000 rows of simple, small text data with a small (3-5 character) text key. The data never changes except when I want to upload a new data file.

I built a nice little application using DB_File (DB_HASH). I created the hash.db on my Linux x86_64 box and uploaded it along with a perl cgi to the sparc. It didn't work :(. I'm not sure why, either it isn't binary portable or the spark has a funky berkeley db.

Is there a native perl implementation of DB_File? Is there a way to create a more generic Berkeley hash file? Should I look towards other packages such as MLDBM? Should I go with something huge like sqlite? Should I write my own file structure and b-tree?

Further complicating my choices is the fact that my client is a mere pawn in an enourmous government burocracy and had to grovel just to get execute permissions for cgi. I had to painfully guide him through ftp chmod 0755 to even get the script to run. I need a solution that is guaranteed (or just likely) to work under any environment.

Any help is welcome!

In reply to Super-Portable DB_File Solution by rokadave

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