Re: Various languages for practical use
- Posted by EUWX Mar 27, 2013
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BTW is not considered much of a contender or known in the database world.
It shouldn't be. It's just a thin wrapper for MySQL/SQLite/etc.
Outside of Euphoria users, it (Euphoria DBI) is not known at all.
DBF of dBase III and IV was dethroned by Microsoft, but at least it is known, and its successor Harbour is very active.
DBF files are seeable under Excel and OpenOffice/Libre.
If it is just a wrapper (I have not looked at it closely enough to dispute this) it should be named as such. Ask the Hadoop and Talend people to create a connection to EDBI! They will most likely say "E WHAT?"
Harbour also has SQLite wrapper and many other languages claim that access, but how many are active in database world?
The buzzword for database is "Big data" in "the Cloud" these days and, sadly enough neither Harbour(DBF), nor EDBI(EDB) and not even Microsoft's Access(MDB) are up to it.
In that world, Postgres, NoSQL, Apache Cassandra, etc are the names one can recommend for a project if Oracle is not acceptable or too expensive, which it is.
Having said all that, I will have another 3-4 hour look at EDBI, for desktop home office level of work..