free, lightweight sql engine

Toma Tasovac ttasovac at princeton.edu
Tue Aug 26 03:29:00 EDT 2003


Has anybody tested SQLite with Revolution?  Also, considering that 
there are now precompiled binaries for Mac OSX -- how hard would be to 
install this for a Unix-illiterate person?

T.

Am Mittwoch, 09.07.03 um 09:53 Uhr schrieb 
revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com:

> I thought this might be of interest to Revolution developers.  SQLite 
> is an cross-platform embedded SQL engine (basically DLL and an ODBC 
> driver).  It appears to be completely free (as in beer and speech).  
> In this sense it is more free than MySQL (my understanding is that the 
> latter is not free for use if distributed as part of a commercial 
> application).
>
> There are bindings for many different languages (there could be a 
> native Transcript binding if Runrev were so inclined, and SQLite could 
> be distributed as a part of Rev). 
>  




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