Re: [open-cobol-list] Splitting files by platform, cobc performance survey

[Patrick]

Hi Brian

I just posted to the SqLite list to see what these folks would say. I 
received two responses. One person thought that SqLite would be too 
slow. His company develops OpenLDAP:

http://www.openldap.org/

He said that it is smaller and faster then BDB and had a no nonsense 
licensing scheme, I haven't really checked it out yet.

The other fellow thought that SqLite might work fine but he did not know 
enough about the application.

The author of Tokyo Cabinet seems to be pushing people to use his Kyoto 
Cabinet now and he wants $12000 per year for commercial use of it, not 
sure where this leaves Tokyo Cabinet.

Maybe SqLite would not replace BDB but it it would be nice to be able to 
interact directly with SQL from within Cobol. There are samples in Cobol 
unleashed, I have never written code like this but I would like to be 
able to write code like this:

EXEC SQL SELECT * INTO FOO
                                   FROM POO
                                   WHERE TITLE = 'moo'
END-EXEC

-Patrick

BTW I don't put too much faith in these programming popularity websites 
but Cobol seems to be doing just fine here, moving up 5 spots:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

I have a little more faith in this one because the metrics are published:

http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/