I'm looking for a light-weight database library that I can compile into a C++ application.
Does any such exist?
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SQLite. Not flat-file, but it is file based, can be easily embedded in apps.
vartec
2009-02-24 12:50:21
Thanks for the suggestion :) . SQLite is clearly the most popular choice on stack overflow :P ... +1
Alterlife
2009-02-25 04:36:37
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For pure XML embedded database you might want to peek at Oracle Berkeley DB XML.
Marcin Gil
2009-02-24 12:53:58
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You can also look at berkleyDB
From wikipedia:
Berkeley DB (BDB) is a computer software library that provides a high-performance embedded database, with bindings in C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Smalltalk, and many other programming languages. BDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as byte arrays, and supports multiple data items for a single key. BDB can support thousands of simultaneous threads of control or concurrent processes manipulating databases as large as 256 terabytes, on a wide variety of operating systems including most Unix-like and Windows systems, and real-time operating systems.
Kasprzol
2009-02-24 13:05:54
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Maybe this very lightweight XML library can also be of help: RapidXML. It's an XML parser, not a database library, but depending on your application that might be enough (you mention a flatfile XML data storage).