I've been using Takusen for all of my database needs, which most of
the time means interfacing to a PostgreSQL database, and it has worked
out pretty well in practice. In fact, I experimented with hsql and HDBC
a while back and for some reason I can't remember they turned out to be
less convenient than Takusen so I changed the code I was working on back
over to Takusen.
Cheers,
Greg
On 7/7/10 2:17 AM, Nick Rudnick wrote:
Hi Chris,
these are good questions -- actually, you might have mentioned
Takusen, too.
Clearly, HDBC is the largest of these projects, and there are lots of
things well done there.
Takusen has an interesting approach, and I would like to see a
discussion here about the practical outcomes, as I have done no
testing yet.
I myself quite a time ago had an opportunity to do a Haskell job with
a PostgreSQL backend for a client, where I tried out all three and got
hsql running easiest. A maintainer was vacant, so I stepped in happily
-- doing refactorings, fixing problems at request, giving advice to
people.
I can say that I am quite a little PostgreSQL centric and that I have
a GIS project in sight, for which I want to try to adapt hsql.
Cheers,
Nick
Christopher Done wrote:
One thing that would be nice is a unification of the general database
libraries hsql and HDBC. What is the difference between them? Why are
there two, and why are there sets of drivers for both (duplication of
effort?)? I've used both in the past but I can't discern a real big
difference (I used the hsql-sqlite library and the HDBC-postgresql
library, whichever worked...). It seems the best thing to do is either
actively merge them together and encourage the community to move from
one to the other -- judging from what I've read HDBC is more up to
date and newer than hsql -- or have some documentation with damn good
reasons to choose one or the other, because currently this is a
needless source of confusion and possible duplication of effort for
Haskell's database libraries.
I wasn't going to post until I'd actually researched the difference
myself properly but I didn't get chance to have a look over the
weekend, but I thought I'd pose the question. Do people actually care
about this?
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