Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications

[Tim Jansen]

On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:08, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> It scales more than enough for the amount of data a typical user will ever
> have to handle.

Actually the problem with 'regular' DBs is not that they scale, but that they 
are designed for concurrent access. They have complex locking schemes that 
increase the performance of simultanous transactions from different 
connections, but make your single-threaded application slower. If you really 
want a SQL-based DB, use one that has been designed for embedded use. This 
would also solve the installation problem.

bye...