Re: Octave and databases

[David Grundberg]

Martin Helm skrev:
> Am Mittwoch, 1. September 2010, 18:41:06 schrieb fork:
>> Martin Helm <martin <at> mhelm.de> writes:
>>>> And heavy and computing-intensive.
>>>>
>>>> Pascal
>>> Not at all, database access via java is as performant as access via
>>> native libraries.
>> I think a lot of people (myself included) view java as a redundant
>> dependency with licensing problems -- a headache with very little payoff. 
>> That is another debate altogether, but I think it is important to have a
>> non-java solution to database problems.  For me, it is a combination of
>> system() and sed, but that isn't exactly graceful either.
>>
> That is a valid point and my intention is not to start here an discussion 
> about the benefits and drawbacks in using java or not. Btw openjdk should not 
> have any license issue (other than oracle/sun java).
> I just want to point at one possible (and in my opinion very easy ) solution.
> Starting a script for data retrieval is also not a bad idea, it depends all 
> on 
> the use case.
> It can even be a good idea to simply write an oct file which interfaces a 
> native lib for database access (but is more work probably for the programmer 
> than compiling a java class).
> 
> Is there a good place where such simple howto's can be documented (in the 
> wiki?) with code examples? I am more than willing to provide some examples, 
> and I guess others like you can also provide examples for script access and 
> other alternatives.
> It will for sure help some people to have working examples for real world 
> problems like data access and they can pick what looks most suitable for them.
> 

Using SWIG together with the database manager's client library is
probably smoothest way to make the interfacing oct file.

Grundbegr