Re: Suggestoins for Local DB to use with Shareware

Go with DBISAM, you won't be sorry!

Small footprint
More stable (mature) than NexusDB
Your app can easily switch between local and C/S
The best support I've ever experienced
Just put your database files in a subfolder of your app and, voila!, you
have a one "file" database

Jason Lee


G. Bradley MacDonald wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I am looking for suggestions for a good local DB for our shareware app.

We have been using Advantage for the last few years - and it is fairly good.

It should have the following:

The DB should fully support SQL.

It would be nice if it only had one actual file - storing all the tables/indexes, etc in that one file.

It must be able to handle string fields of up to 512 characters in size. Larger would be nice. It would even be better if it they were like VarChar fields in a relational database and only took up the size that was used.

It must have a low foot print in terms of size. This is shareware and is downloadable. Somewhere arount 1 to 2 MB would be tollerable.

We will also be supporting MS SQL, Oracle, Interbase - for larger customers - but want to support a local DB for smaller customers. So - this DB must be able to support SQL as its main way of accessing the data. It MUST be accessable using Borlands standard components - no special TTable derivities is important.

Any suggestions?



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