----- Original Message ----- From: "xerofoify via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> To: "Tim Tisdall via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> Cc: "xerofoify" <xerofoify@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Question
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:53 PM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 07:49:15PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 2019-01-14 12:35 a.m., William Park via talk wrote:
It so happens that I'm looking for interpretor suitable for embedded applications. I read up on "Lua". Maybe there are other options?
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Main feature I need is ability to save "state" of some data structure, say variables, array, or dictionary, without having to parse/reparse when writing/reading from filesystem. Python can do that. I can do that in C too. My last choice would be SQLite, though, it has its advantages. -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
This is my reply to both Tim first.
Tim: My Recommendations would be to see if you can find an embedded version of SQLite or another library that meets your requirement.
<snip> BerkelyDB might be another option for storing an enbedded application's non-volatile data. BerkelyDB is now owned by Oracle, but I believe there is an open-source version available) BerkelyDB could be more performant than SQLite and also could have a smaller footprint. In complexity, BerkelyDB would fit between SQLite and parsing the embedded app's non-volatile date out of a file(s) in the barebones filesystem. I myself an considering migrating a PostgreSQL database (used by a PHP-based website app) to (an open source version of) BerkelyDB, because of the BerkelyDB claim that it requires "zero administration". If true, this "zero administration" feature sounds to me like a great fit for an embedded app.. Steve