[plt-scheme] Databases and SLIB

From: Sergey Khorev (sergey.khorev at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 02:15:26 EST 2005

OK. Take look at http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/
See section "Schemete - Metakit bindings for PLT Scheme"

Maybe it will be good idea to put this onto Schematics site.


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:30:29 -0800 (PST), Noel Welsh
<noelwelsh at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Erich Rast <erich at snafu.de> wrote:
> 
> > So the question is whether there is a lightweight DB in
> > Plt Scheme that
> >
> > 1.) doesn't hold everything in memory
> >
> > 2.) let's the programmer know which files are written to
> > disk
> >
> > 3.) will be able to store and search for Unicode strings
> >
> > Does anyone have a suggestion what I could use?
> 
> If you are happy to give up SQL the Berkeley DB (or the
> less featureful GDBM) may suit your needs.  There are
> bindings to the latter at:
> 
>   http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/ru/scheme/
> 
> (Or so I think; my Russian isn't up to much.)  For the
> former I am working on bindings.  They are in the
> Schematics CVS.  Currently other projects are occupying my
> copious free time; I'll get around to finishing them
> eventually if someone else (hint) doesn't beat me to it.
> 
> If you want SQL, then perhaps SQLite would do?
> 
>   SQLite is a small C library that implements a
>   self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL
>   database engine.
> 
>   http://www.sqlite.org/
> 
> There is also MetaKit:
> 
>   Metakit is an efficient embedded database library with a
>   small footprint. It fills the gap between flat-file,
>   relational, object-oriented, and tree-structured
>   databases, supporting relational joins, serialization,
>   nested structures, and instant schema evolution.
> 
>   http://www.equi4.com/metakit.html
> 
> If you write bindings to any of the above you'll be my
> personal hero; we really need more DB bindings.
> 
> HTH,
> Noel
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Sergey Khorev
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