On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Christian Smith < csm...@thewrongchristian.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 01:08:59PM +0000, Harmen de Jong - CoachR Group > B.V. wrote: > > We have built our own SQLite database server application and are > considering making this open source. Since there will be some time involved > into making it an open source project and maintaining it, we would first > like to make an inventory to find out if there is any interest in this > server application. > > > > ==> How it works: > > > > Clients can communicate with this server over TCP/IP sockets. Queries > are submitted and returned in XML format (BLOB results are returned in > binary format to prevent CPU intensive encoding and decoding). The server > application is written in native Visual C++ (without using MFC). If we > would make this project open source we would also include a client example. > > > I dare say that parsing and encoding XML would be more processor intensive > that BLOB encoding. > > IMO, you'd also increase your potential target audience if you could also > provide reasonably functional JDBC, ADO.NET, PHP and/or Python database > drivers. Providing any of these would allow existing users to plug your new > database into existing applications with the minimal of fuss. Personally, I > don't like the idea of XML as the protocol, largely because of the parsing > overhead, and have been looking at a similar server based on RPC, but for > debugging purposes it would be great. > > Regards, > Christian > _______________________________________________ > Not all XML libraries are inefficient. TinyXml2 would probably work great for this use-case. (disclaimer: I use TinyXml2 in an unrelated project, but I am not the author). _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
