Nate Duehr Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 02:52

>These small proprietary relational databases like Bento seem useful,  
>right up until you have to beat on them to get your data into them in  
>some way that makes sense to you.  Then you just want the simplicity  
>of a spreadsheet or text file again... heh.  I dunno what's the best.   
>I lean heavily back to boring old ASCII text and a reasonably sane  
>directory tree system, most of the time -- but that's my Unix  
>background and profession showing... I can manipulate text... boy can  
>I do that... that's what Unix does best!  But sometimes I yearn for a  
>modern user interface... and then find them annoying... back and  
>forth...


The file system is really a database manager, just like SQL, but optimized
for storing a specific type of data: Files. If you break up files in logical
ways so that they don't get too huge and so that you don't have too many
files in one directory, they work pretty darn well.

Why not put a nice front end on the text files and directories?

Any scripting language or C / C++ can manage that. It just takes some work
to polish it up. 

Or you can use SQL instead and have something that more people will be
interested in helping you with.

--
James.

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