[MUD-Dev] DBs and Events

[Jon A. Lambert]

On 10 Feb 98 at 10:52, Greg Munt wrote:
>
> Am looking for some (web) references to disk-based databases. Can anyone 
> help? Advantages and disadvantages of using (only) GDBM to provide a mud DB?
>

Well there's the Free Database List at <http://solar.flare.net/FreeDB/>
And countless commercial webpages...

GDBM:
 
Advantage - 
	very, very fast access

Disadvantage -
    requires a lot of low-level supporting code (it's contextually stupid)
	data corruption is a snap
    recovery (sheesh do it yourself)
	not threaded aware

I've been looking at TDBM recently as a possible alternative plug-in to my 
relational solution.  I used Watcom-SQL in my early implementation and
have since chenged to Borlands Paradox.  I can plug in Oracle, MS-Access, 
DB2, or several dozen others if I'm so inclined (ODBC compliant).  I like 
having the DB implementation totally independent of the server.  

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