Low Dependency Database?

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 :thumb:

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.

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

Berkeley DB

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Originally Posted by penagate

Berkeley DB

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

File systems.

What? Stop staring at me like that.

How about SQLite?

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