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Cloudscape Gains Momentum
A reader writes: "There's been a lot of bits written recently about the growth of Open Source databases; as well as IBM's patent gift, as their release of the Java database Cloudscape. There's a contest running on SourceForge.net around Cloudscape; download and run with it." SF.net is part of OSTG, like Slashdot.
Hey, I like Java as much as anyone, but if you're looking for a fast, multi-platform, zero-administration database be sure to check out SQL Anywhere Studio. The Developer Edition is completely free and runs on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Netware and most flavors of Windows, including CE/PocketPC. See the description of what's in SQL Anywhere Studio for details. (Note that some of you may remember SQL Anywhere as Watcom SQL.)
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As it happens I've already written a review of cloudscape; the google cache of it is here.
Brief summary: get the Apache version; reasonably full SQL92 syntax; performance OK; a bit lacking on security.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
I'm a Java developer, and have been almost from the very start of Java. While I tend to agree with you at first, I would like to point out some benefits of using Cloudscape.
Over the years I've had a few (small, hobby) projects, where I really felt the need for a database which did not need to be fast nor did it need to be huge. So I tried Cloudscape. And while it isn't the fastest around, it gets the job done.
The easiest part is that you can just bundle it with your application, without writing a single line of code!
I've tried MySQL, but I still need to install it prior to being able to run my application - no need for that with Cloudscape.
But, granted, it is not the fastest out there. If I need a *real* database, I just use Oracle.
Best thing about cloudscape is small embedded databases for java programs rather than making calls to a huge mysql database. You may say that java is slow but anyone using cloudscape for more than 20,000 entries may not be thinking that through. Cloudscape will also be useful for java programmers to program a database using java.
How about using SQLite. It's a C library (native C++, does that mean C is ok?) which provides a self-contained database engine. No need to run a DBMS.
You might wanna check out SQLite, which is in the public domain. It matches all of your requirements, and then some, I think.
GPL made simple: What was my stuff is now our stuff. If you improve our stuff, please keep it our stuff.
Beeing in the incubator does not yet mean it is a full blown ASF project - but that the ASF is in the process of ensuring that there is a healthy community around it, that all the legal paperwork, trademakrs, grants, copyrights and other interlectual rights are sorted out, that commiter license agreements are on file for each developer, etc, etc..
Once that is all in place (and getting a healthy long term community is hardest - the rest is just endless grunt work and digging through code and legal paperwork dotting i's and crossing t's) it'll leave the incubator and be a full blown process.
Feel invited to join and make this happen ;-)
Dw.