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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications
From: Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date: 2003-09-21 13:38:38
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On Sunday 21 September 2003 14:29, Tim Jansen wrote:
> 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.
Despite what you added in your following post, I agree with your point :-).
This is one area where flat files won't work. However there aren't many
desktop applications which have such a requirement.
To sum up my point : a lightweight DB API would be nice to have someday, but
it should be a low priority.
--
Guillaume.
http://www.telegraph-road.org
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