Request for recommendations: shared database without a server

Paul Boddie paul at boddie.org.uk
Fri Oct 6 05:45:27 EDT 2006


EP wrote:
>

[Client-only application with shared storage and concurrent access]

> Can I get there with MySQL?  Or do I need to pair a pure python
> approach (including the database) with py2exe?  Has anyone achieved
> this with a db framework like Dabo?  Or is there another, entirely
> different and better approach?

One of the features of SQLite version 3 is supposedly the possibility
of having multiple processes safely access an SQLite database:

http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q7

Unfortunately, networked storage may not be supported to any level
acceptable for your application.

Paul




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