Re: [open-cobol-list] ISAM replacement (was Team setup)

[Bernard Giroud]

Thanks Christian,

That ("How about http://vbisam.sourceforge.net/?";) looks promising.

Cheers,

Bernard Giroud
Credit Lyonnais (Suisse) SA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Lademann" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [open-cobol-list] Team setup


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:21:41 +0200
address@hidden wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I read this point in the TODO file :
>
>
> ** New backends for INDEXED files
>
>  - Any alternative to BerkeleyDB?
>  - Use DB (PostgreSQM, MySQL, etc.) as backends

Hi, OpenCOBOL team,

I'm happy to see things going forward :-)

How about http://vbisam.sourceforge.net/?

Regards,

Christian Lademann
>
>
> Actually, I wrote my own implementation of indexed and relative files.
> I used it for 3 years for personnal needs.
> It could deal with big files (20 millions records, and more than 500 Mo)
with
> good performances. (based on trees and mmap)
> It has some deficiencies and must be improved : keys are single fields,
delete
> is not ready, etc .. And surely it has some bugs.
>
> Do you think it could be an alternative to BerkeleyDB. Is it a good idea
or not
> ? My opinion is yes but I am partial. And there is still a lot of work to
make
> it a solid product. It would be a full job, and doing that I could not do
> another thing. Furthermore the task we subscribe is COBOL compilation, not
file
> management.
>
> Yet, I think that a COBOL compiler should have its own implementation for
ISAM
> and should not depend on third products like BerkeleyDB. (Althought I am a
great
> fan of it).
> It has to be self-sufficient.
> And DB (MySQL, Postgres, ...) induce constraints and minimum
administration
> tasks which I think are not compatible with the simple needs of an ISAM
tool.
>
> What is your opinion ?
>
> Cheers
> Henry
>
>
>


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