Firebird is a nice, small, ACID compliant database that embeds well.
firebird.sourceforge.net
Rick
pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org wrote on 10/03/2005 12:12:44 AM:
> Samik Raychaudhuri <samik@freeshell.org> writes:
> > ... What I wanted is a no-trace (or minimal trace), no-admin required
> > kind of installation (I won't be able to create a non-admin user in the
> > comp), which, when I am done, I can just delete the installation
> > directory and will be clear.
>
> Postgres isn't really designed to be the sort of "embedded" database
> that you seem to be after. You should look at other alternatives.
> (Berkeley DB is one possibility that's written by friends of ours ;-))
>
> In particular, you'll get zero sympathy here for any request to let the
> database run as an admin-level user. The IPC communication structure we
> use does not allow restricting requests to just one program, and hence
> ignoring security issues is simply not a sane thing to do.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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