From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38C0BB81 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:35:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jBRKZIM5008631 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:35:18 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA30162 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:35:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.enyo.de (mail.enyo.de [212.9.189.167]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jBRKZGjc008618 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:35:17 +0100 Received: from deneb.vpn.enyo.de ([212.9.189.177] helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp id 1ErLXP-0005MI-KL; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:35:15 +0100 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ErLXO-0001uD-7y; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:35:14 +0100 From: Florian Weimer To: David MENTRE Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Persistent storage and stability of Marshal? References: <87wthruedp.fsf@linux-france.org> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:35:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87wthruedp.fsf@linux-france.org> (David MENTRE's message of "Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:34:58 +0100") Message-ID: <87hd8uwa65.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 43B1A586.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 43B1A584.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 integers:01 ocaml:01 bindings:01 100,000:98 marshal:01 strings:01 data:02 florian:02 external:02 berkeley:03 dbm:03 size:95 lookup:07 lookup:07 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 * David MENTRE: > Right now, I don't have big needs: few tables of moderate size (below > 100,000 records) so I'm in favor of simple solutions: Dbm or Berkeley DB > (no need to setup an external SQL server). I need to lookup values > through known keys. The key and stored data are simple records of > strings and integers. In the future, I might need to lookup rows > according to certain field value. Have a look at SQLite. I like it a lot. During the past couple of months, even a few Ocaml bindings have sprung into existence.