Re: Database Suggestions
Re: Database Suggestions
- Subject: Re: Database Suggestions
- From: Nick Beadman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 23:56:57 -0700
Valentina has made it as far as the radar but I haven't seriously looked at
it yet.
Does anyone have any experience deploying Valentina ?
Nick
on 8/7/02 8:07 pm, John Anderson at email@hidden wrote:
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Perhaps Valentina will do the job?
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http://www.paradigmasoft.com/
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John Anderson
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On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 06:49 PM, Nick Beadman wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Before I start I would like to make clear exactly what I am _not_
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> looking
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> for. I know that a solution to my problem was EOF but this is no
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> longer an
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> option. Rather than to spend a long time bemoaning it's apparent death
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> I am
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> more interested in the future and any suggestions people have to solve
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> my
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> problem with _available_ tools. I fully intend to email Apple about
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> their
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> lack of support of EOF and how it would have allowed me to solve this
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> problem quickly and easily.
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> Now that is out of the way, here goes....
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> I am a shareware author that is trying to build an application not
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> entirely
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> unlike iTunes or iPhoto except for a completely different problem
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> domain. As
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> part of the design of this application I have realised that what I
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> need to
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> do is to store all of my data in a database. Unfortunately, as a
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> shareware
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> author I can't afford to spend thousands of dollars on a solution or
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> pay per
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> usage royalties (as the accounting for this would be too complex).
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> Here are
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> a brief list of requirements, most important first:
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> - No runtime license requirements
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> - Ability to hold globs of data each of which is around 100-200K +
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> metadata
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> - Ability to handle around 10,000 rows of data and be quick to sort
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> - Transparent to the user, no separate applications (although
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> background OK)
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> - Not too expensive (did I mention it is for a piece of shareware ?)
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> Other things that would be great but not essential:
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> - Full text search (like iTunes !)
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> - Ability to open multiple DBs (user, computer, network) and show a
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> unified
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> view
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> Thanks for any advice you might have,
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> Nick
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> --
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> Nick Beadman
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> email@hidden
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> http://www.polymorph.net
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> PolyMorph Software Development, fine utilities for your Mac.
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