SUMMARY: Public Domain database for UNIX

From: Clive Haworth (chaworth@uk.mdis.com)
Date: Wed May 17 1995 - 23:01:48 CDT


Thanks to all that responded:

        Ted Nolan SRI Ft Gordon <ted@ags.ga.erg.sri.com>
        muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff)
        David Sammut <sammut@citr.uq.oz.au>
        ave Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
        blackman@athens.dental.upenn.edu (David Blackman)
        SangThong@ccm.sns.com.sg (SangThong)
        Jas (Matthew K) <matt@uts.EDU.AU>
        sjs@sunthing.sjsinc.com (Stefan Jon Silverman)
        mdp@wilj.itl.co.uk (Michael Pope)
        Darryl Wagoner <darryl@sai.com>

It seems this subject has been covered before, so apologises, I didn't know.

I ftp'd various suggested packages.

The one I really liked was 'Typhoon'
from Thomas B. Pedersen <zeppelin@login.dkuug.dk>.

This is available from
sunsite.unc.edu under /pub/Linux/devel/db/typhoon-1.10.tgz

You build the DB using a database description language that understands
C Structures. It doesn't do locking yet but that isn't an issue for me.
There's then a C API. Features include duplicate secondary indices, which
is a must for my particular application. It's much better to use than C-ISAM.

David Muir Sharnoff passed on a useful document of PD UNIX DBs.The latest
version of the document can be ftp'd:

        pub/free-databases from ftp.idiom.com.

Lots of people suggested:

        http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/databases/free-databases/faq.html

Thanks again for this response.

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Clive Haworth
chaworth@uk.mdis.com



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