concurrent access to dbms (was best way to store dbm records?)

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aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote in <8rvpfh$933$1 at panix3.panix.com>:

>In article <8rpeko$4jd$1 at bob.news.rcn.net>,
>Michael B. Allen <mballen at NOSPAM_erols.com> wrote:
>>
>>Shelve works great Tim, thanks. I have implemented this and it works
>>very well for my purposes.
>>
>>I may have a different issue however. The docs on shelve(and I would
>>imagine dbm's in general) report that you cannot concurrently read from
>>it if it is open by a writer. If I have interpreted the docs correctly
>>this is true even if it is only open by a single writer.
>
>Without going into the details of your specific needs, have you
>considered using a full-blown DBMS?  Both MySQL and PostGreSQL would
>probably suit you (I have used neither, but they're both claimed to be
>multi-user (read "concurrent")).

http://www.sleepycat.com 's Berkeley DB will let you
do all this things.