Re: Nonproprietary file format for storing data in a relational database

Jesper Sahner wrote:

> Hi Christopher!
>
> Get you point, but in order to access a proprietary database you are
> still
> dependent of e.g. a "database-engine" and a JDBC-driver, and maybe
> that's not for free! And maybe accessing that particular database
> using a JDBC-driver is much slower than accessing the database in the
> "native" database-language.
>
> Let's say that you were using SAS (Statistical Analysis System).
> Accessing
> data from within SAS is very quick, but I guess that accessing data
> from
> outside SAS, e.g. from Java using a JDBC-driver is much slower
> (haven't
> tried it though).
>
> If you are using e.g. Java, then I was thinking of some
> kind of nonproprietary (in the sense open-source) "native"
> Java-database
> file format, that could be used without any JDBC- or ODBC-bridging to
> obtain
> quicker access.
>
> In other words: Does e.g. Java have it's own database structure, or is
> this question nonsense?
>

I think you may be looking for PostgreSQL or mySQL. These are both free as in "free pizza" but PostgreSQL is much more sophisticated and is also free-as-in-freedom, it is distributed under the BSD license.

http://www.postgresql.org

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