[REBOL] Re: [DEV] Re: dbms3.r 01
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 15-Jan-2002 15:12
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> From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]On Behalf
> Of Petr Krenzelok
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:13 PM
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> Subject: [REBOL] Re: [DEV] Re: dbms3.r 01
> well, I can imagine it, but there is one significant limitation to overcome -
you
> have to launch such external database gateway in some way. Unless
> /Shell component comes for free, some ppl will not regard the solution being
pure
> Rebol based ....
Hi, that's right but with a startup-script it should be OK.
> On the other hand - look at Rebol ODBC solution for e.g. On one hand you use
> simplified port based mechanism, while on the other hand you need to
> understand external language, e.g. some SQL equivalent. So - you would have to
> include database commands into your C/C++ engine, which could limit most
users,
> because changes are difficult to introduce with such solution ...
Not quite. For Rebol you would get a dialect for database activity, queries etc.
The engine is just for doing the hard work. I don't want to implement a SQL
parser there ;-)). The engine can search on b*-trees etc. even the query
optimizer can be done in Rebol if you want.
> But if you want to do it, look at "multiplatform" LibmySQLd, create
> the gw app, and you are done .... well, binary format though, which is not
suitable
> from what you described ...
This is a RDBMS... I don't want to use a RDBMS concept, the engine should be
much more Rebol coupled. Robert
