Re: B*-trees

In article <3A5DE844.49C14804_at_rz.fh-augsburg.de>,   Christoph Rupp <chrrupp_at_rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
> I don't know what kind of database you want to implement.
>
> I want my database to be a storage system which is neither object
 oriented nor
> relational. It just should offer tables with primary and secondary
 indices. So
> you could say it's pretty close to a relational database (just
 without primary
> and secondary keys and all the features and constraints that come
 with them). I
> think sometimes it would be useful if you (as a programmer) could
 just link a
> static library to your application and voila, you have database
 functionality.
> And you don't have to install another database runtime or ODBC-Driver
 or
> whatever...
>

There is at least one product that meet your criteria -- from Raima. As of 1995 (last time I worked with their product) they didn't have royalties per server installs (as a matter of fact, they don't have servers per se -- the RDBMS engine links to the application the same way as you describe). There are also competitive products like Btrieve, but I didn't work with this one. Nowadays, there might be even free ones.

I understand, however, that writing this thing yourself is more fun:-)

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