Re: sqlite3

[Po Lu]

"Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org> writes:

> gdbm may or may not be what you need in Emacs.
> sqlite is not a replacement for gdbm.
> recutils is not a replacement for sqlite.

> It seems to me that any discussion in which it is raised the alternative
> of using so disparaged systems such as gdbm, sqlite and recutils for
> some particular purpose, is in serious need of some clarification on why
> a database sytem is needed to begin with and the nature of the data to
> be stored there.

The idea is that people want a way to store key-value pairs quickly (as
in, faster than a hash table serialized with `print').  Hence the idea
to use (g)dbm.