Re: Viable lightweight Smalltalk based DB copasetic with 9.3

SQLite definitely works with the latest versions of VW.  Charles'
requirements implied that he does not want relational, but if he would
relax that particular point, SQLite would fit all the others perfectly.



On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Cesar Rabak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Your description seems to *almost* fit with Embarcadero's Interbase,
> however, I'm not sure if there's still a parcel for binding this DB in
> recent versions of VW.
>
> HTH
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 2:10 PM Charles Monteiro <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> lightweight, something that you would ship with your product , preferably
>> that could run on Windows, Mac , Linux, not an RDMS, something that would
>> not require the user to do any specific installation of the DB or have to
>> do any maintenance of the DB. Effectively embedded but something that had
>> some nice semantics i.e. not BOSS, does not have to be multi user , it
>> could just be persisted in a file or set of local files , but not something
>> that you would load entirely into memory, ideally something that would
>> persist Smalltalk objects , to my recollection that's exactly what Omnibase
>> did, although I actually think it was multi-user but it didn't have to be
>> used as such
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 4:07 AM Nowak, Helge <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> What are your requirements with regards to the DB?
>>>
>>> What exactly do you mean by “lightweight?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
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>>>
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>>> [email protected]> *Im Auftrag von *Charles Monteiro
>>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 13. Oktober 2023 20:27
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>>> *Betreff:* [vwnc] Viable lightweight Smalltalk based DB copasetic with
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>>> So no "have you tried BOSS" pls :)
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>>> I recall OmniBase for example but not sure if that's currently the best
>>> thing going or if it breaks in 9.3 . I don't want to use Mongo for this
>>> particular project and thus the request.
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>>> thanks
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