Re: sqlite3

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Before this discussion takes off, one should first take into acount if
it fits adding sqlite to Emacs with the overall guidelines of GNU
Emacs, the GNU project, and the GNU coding standards.

The sqlite non-license (it says public domain) status might be
problematic, since to get a proper license would require the FSF to
buy one explicitly.  Richard or someone would have to check how that
would work out.


The main benefit of dbm is that it is standard on all Unix systems,
GNU included while sqlite isn't.  There is also GNU GDBM which has
extra features over standard DBM, like data consitency and what nots
and is installed as widley as sqlite on GNU/Linux systems.

GNU recutils is not as standard, but it is a GNU project and could be
extended in maners that are useful for GNU emacs.  The nicest thing
about the recutils format is that it is plain text, and it is fast.
The developers maybe can fill in how well it does on bigger datasets;
adding Jose to CC.