From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: libgnadeodbc Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:23:11 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <69b9d281-0697-452e-a5a5-475257c1435d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: MyFhHs417jM9AgzRpXn7yg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51440 Date: 2018-04-11T09:23:11+02:00 List-Id: On 10/04/2018 23:54, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message > news:pahpof$1d9l$1@gioia.aioe.org... >> On 10/04/2018 06:08, Stephen Leake wrote: >> >>> I use the sqlite variant, but they also support others. >> >> SQLite is a single-file DB. It has a totally different purpose than DBMS >> "proper", e.g. to be linked statically to an application in order to keep >> some private persistent data. It wonders me why people keep on mentioning >> it in the same row with MySQL, MS-SQL etc. > > Maybe because it is all most projects need, but clueless management has > required a DBMS? So the programmers fake it by using SQLite and saying it is > a DBMS? (Few problems really need a DBMS.) BTW, these are two separate questions in one: 1. Do we need a shared persistent storage with a well-defined, concurrent, networking, consistent etc interface? 2. Must it be relational? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de