Low Dependency Database?

[Kasracer]

I have a few projects I'm working on and I would really prefer to save their data into a database for archival purposes (it has to be able to handle quite a bit of data; possibly GBs of data but most likely not more than 10-20GB but it is possible). Are there are databases that don't require an installation?

What I'm hoping for is a library that saves a database as files to wherever I specify and it can read and write directly from the DLL to the database so I won't have to install anything additional for the database to work.

It's possible this application may be ported to OS X as well so any cross-platform solutions would be awesome

I remember seeing a C library that basically acted in this way. You could reference it, query the database with the full SQL syntax. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was called but that may be a good solution.

[techgnome]

At first my thought was SQL CE.... 7 dlls and it's deployed.... but cross platform, obvious that won't work.

Might want to try Firebird.... http://www.firebirdsql.org/ haven't used it, but I hear it's pretty decent.

-tg

[penagate]

Berkeley DB

[Kasracer]

Berkeley DB

That looks awesome! Thanks, I'll check it out.

[mendhak]

File systems.

What? Stop staring at me like that.

[nebulom]

How about SQLite?

[alMubarmij]

SQLite is very nice, easy and fast.
you can use it by SQLiteODBC.