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From: leeke@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (Steven D. Leeke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Database toolkits
Keywords: Resource Manager, Databases
Message-ID: <17474@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 31 May 88 20:59:38 GMT
Reply-To: leeke@glacier.UUCP (Steven D. Leeke)
Organization: Stanford University
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I would like to be able to use something like the resource manager for
a database since it does so many things well, but the resource mgr itself
is out due to performance limitations on large files and the upper limit of
2727 resources/file.

I should start by asking if there is a way to augment or "fix" the
resource mgr to get beyond these limitations?  Would multiple (ugh) resource
files be a reasonable option?

In light of this, what database toolkits (source or binaries) are
available to help support an application with 30-40 distinct object types,
10-20 fields per object type, several thousand object instances, and
the need to look-up & return an object by type and serial number?  Many
objects reference or contain other objects.

We have ctree source and while it might do the job it is a generic toolkit.
At this point in the project I would really like to plug in a library to
get the needed functionality.  Also, as the resource mgr does, it would
be preferable to run out of one logical file, but this isn't a hard and fast
rule.

Finally, functionality is more important than price, i.e. we need to get the
project completed...

Many thanks for any help anyone can offer,

Steve Leeke

-- 
Steven D. Leeke, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University
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