[Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

[Henry Vermaak]

On 18 June 2010 08:15, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 June 2010 22:33, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>> Not to mention speed.  I've written code for hash table indexed files,
>> and it isn't pretty.
>
> And amazingly everybody managed just for for 15+ years (in the OS/2,
> DOS, Win3.11 era) before RDBMS became popular on desktop systems.  If

Not every program needs this.  It's a specific use case.  Even word
processing formats are now based on xml that's compressed.  If you
don't need the speed, stick with human readable formats.

> you can't program something as simply as a binary storage system for
> some application data, then maybe you (any developer - not
> specifically targeted at you) should have a change in career.

_Everyone_ can roll their own, and we all have.  But it's not going to
be fast, reliable and robust.  Some people will just never learn,
maybe _they_ need a change of career.