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This was a standard feature of flat file databases in the early 90s. There were many products. They often had an ODBC driver, which provided a SQL front end. dB
by buckminster 7y ago
This was a standard feature of flat file databases in the early 90s. There were many products. They often had an ODBC driver, which provided a SQL front end. dBase .dbf files were often used for storage. The arcane file locking in Windows is intended for exactly this kind of application.
Apart from quality (!), SQLite's main advantage over these products is broad platform support. And continued existence.
- specialbat 7y agoWe still have a multi user desktop application that uses the Borland database engine and dbf files over a windows file server. The BDE is no longer supported but it still works
- swiley 7y agoUnix like operating systems also allow locking files for on disk databases (like mbox files) it’s just not what every application does by default.
- tootie 7y agoUsed to love dbm files. 1980s serverless NoSQL. They're still totally usable although we have LevelDB nowadays too.