Re: SQLite just awarded open source award
- Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Aug 19, 2005
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D. Newhall wrote: > Chris Burch wrote: > > SQLite has flavours for windows and Linux, is extremely small, is very very > > fast, is > > web / CGI enabled, with many servers already offering it as a service, and, > > the most > > important one, euSQL is specific to euphoria, and as a consequence the > > databases are > > not transportable - SQLite has wrappers for perl, basic, ruby, python, > > delphi etc etc > > etc. > > Yeah, but arguably more importantly is that there is a MySQL library in the > archive. > MySQL is much more popular than SQLite. SQLite wrappers are important but not > every > webhost supports SQLite databases but almost all have MySQL. The problem with both solutions (SQLite and MySQL) is that most web hosts require extra dough to set those up for you, or you have to install an extra .so or .dll. With a EDS, it's all Euphoria, all the time. I still don't know why Rob hasn't put this forum into a Euphoria database, at least as a cool demo of the technology. :) -=ck "Programming in a state of EUPHORIA." http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/