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From: mike@bria.UUCP (Mike Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Public domain database code
Message-ID: <299@bria.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 91 08:26:48 GMT
Reply-To: bria!mike@uunet.uu.net (Mike Stefanik)
Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA
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Pardon me whilst I do a bit of public grovelling ...

Recently, a friend of mine purchased C-Tree from Faircom.  I skimmed
over the documentation, and it looks thoroughly unattractive to me.
Personally, I like gdbm.  However, it lacks one rather necessary
item: the ability to fetch keys in sequential sorted order.  Of course,
you could always load the keys insert them into a list, etc -- but
this would not be a workable solution for databases of an arbitrarily
large size (gdbm takes 27 seconds to walk through a 10000 record
database -- not blinding speed to say the least; requiring a user to
sit through a load phase this long is uncool.)

So, the question is: are there any other reasonably efficient database
libraries out there in the public domain?  Something ISAMish in nature?

Thanks!

-- 
Mike Stefanik, MGI Inc., Los Angeles -- Opinions stated are never realistic!
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." -Lincoln