In article <26232548.146.1322363676465.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pruu5>, 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > In general, databases differ from in-memory data > > structures in that they provide: > > > > 1) Persistence > > > > 2) Data integrity > > > > 3) Shared access > > Shared in access in a local lan or a wide wan? Well, like I said in my original post, "Different kinds of databases provide different amounts and flavors of these". Sharing across a network is one type of shared access, but there are lots of things that don't do network access that I would still consider databases. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list