Subj : Database program to just work with text files?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : adams_forum
Date : Sat Aug 21 2004 11:53 am

Hello,

Does anyone know if there exists a database program for Linux that
just modifies one or more text files?

I've been using mysql, but I don't want something for networks; I
don't like the daemon that runs in the background (according to top
and KDE System Guard, it has 4 threads running taking about 25MB
each!).  I just have a personal "database" consisting of tab-separated
values and I want to query it with SQL statements rather than look
through the file.

All I want is a program to do the following:
1. open 1 or more text files, 1 file per database table
2. read the data into memory
3. execute an SQL statement on it
4. if the statement was a modification, save the data back

Permissions would be handled by the file permissions and owner(s), no
daemons, no networks, no sockets, just nice and simple.

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