Re: Lua OS

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Doug Currie <doug.currie@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Coda Highland wrote:
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>> Ugh, why SQLite? I like SQLite for relational data, don't get me
>> wrong, but you'd be much better off using Kyoto Cabinet (if GPL3 is
>> not an issue) or Tokyo Cabinet (if it is) because those are MUCH more
>> appropriate for this kind of data and many orders of magnitude faster.
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> http://lua-users.org/wiki/PersistentTablesSqlite
> Last edited January 6, 2007 3:26 am GMT
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> http://fallabs.com/mikio/profile.html
> 2007-08-12      released the initial version of Tokyo Cabinet
> 2009-12-26      released the initial version of Kyoto Cabinet
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> Besides, I wrote the PersistentTablesSqlite code to test LuaSQLite3!
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> e
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That's a very good answer! Although I would still have been pointing
to Berkeley DB or gdbm et al in 2006 as it's still a more natural
mapping for the use case.

But writing a persistence layer as a test for another library? That's
perfectly legit. :)

/s/ Adam