Generic database system
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Hi, I am looking for a generic database option which will be used to save some admininistration configuration information of a web application. I want to have the database generic and license free. For example, I do not want to use SQL Server or Oracle etc. But customer A can have sql server and Customer B can have Oracle, but this configuration information should be easy enough to be exported to other database systems. I was thinking about XML. But I heard sometimes the file gets too big to handle. Not sure if MS Access or admin site's inbuilt db system will help. If anybody knows any other light weight database system (it can be open source) which is easy enough to be exported to general database systems, please let me know the thoughts. Thanks, Vijay
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Hi, I am looking for a generic database option which will be used to save some admininistration configuration information of a web application. I want to have the database generic and license free. For example, I do not want to use SQL Server or Oracle etc. But customer A can have sql server and Customer B can have Oracle, but this configuration information should be easy enough to be exported to other database systems. I was thinking about XML. But I heard sometimes the file gets too big to handle. Not sure if MS Access or admin site's inbuilt db system will help. If anybody knows any other light weight database system (it can be open source) which is easy enough to be exported to general database systems, please let me know the thoughts. Thanks, Vijay
This is one that you could take a look at: SQL Lite[^]
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Hi, I am looking for a generic database option which will be used to save some admininistration configuration information of a web application. I want to have the database generic and license free. For example, I do not want to use SQL Server or Oracle etc. But customer A can have sql server and Customer B can have Oracle, but this configuration information should be easy enough to be exported to other database systems. I was thinking about XML. But I heard sometimes the file gets too big to handle. Not sure if MS Access or admin site's inbuilt db system will help. If anybody knows any other light weight database system (it can be open source) which is easy enough to be exported to general database systems, please let me know the thoughts. Thanks, Vijay
XML is good for configuration. If you are concerned about it growing large, then I doubt it is configuration. If you need a database, then try to be as database agnostic as you can be so different clients can use different databases -- make it configurable.