database without installation again
Larry Bates
lbates at websafe.com
Tue Feb 27 18:34:13 EST 2007
andrew_s wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm looking for any database which I could use without need of instalation.
> I've read some threads here but I couldn't find any complete answer.
> On my ISP's server I can use Python throu cgi only. There is Python 2.4.3
> and it has only standard library modules and no possibility to oficially
> install anything else.
> This version has embedded Berkeley DB (bsddb) and it could be OK for storing
> data only, but I need a possibility to use simple selects with group by and
> aggregates, which I think are not supported by bsddb. SQLite could be good
> choice, but unfortunately it's included in standard Python library from
> version 2.5.
>
> Any ideas? Maybe is it possible to "install" by myself something like SQLite
> or MySQLdb in my cgi-bin directory? I've tried it putting files from MySQLdb
> module, but there was errors with missing libssl.so or sth. I think, the
> best solution would be db stored in binary file with interface in based on
> standard Python library, but is there anything like that??
>
> TIA!
>
Change to an ISP that allows you:
MySQL databases
root access to your virtual machine
By the time you do the research and/or write something you will have spent more
time than moving to another ISP. Its not all that hard and they are CHEAP.
-Larry
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