From: gavino
Subject: even with lisp, are websites just interfaces to databases? or can you skip the rdbms?
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Message-ID: <1161205044.228123.15940@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
I read on Paul Grahams site that he did not use a rdbms with viaweb.

Is this choice still practical?

I hate dealing with databases.

From: joseph.wecker
Subject: Re: even with lisp, are websites just interfaces to databases? or can you skip the rdbms?
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Message-ID: <1161206028.422917.319950@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
gavino wrote:
> I read on Paul Grahams site that he did not use a rdbms with viaweb.
>
> Is this choice still practical?
>
> I hate dealing with databases.

Absolutely.  If you're not going to do complex queries or the data is
not likely to change very often (i.e., if you feel you're not going to
have to deal with locks) then most file-systems are more than adequate.
 Check out cl-store (I think you can find it from cliki.net) for some
cool ways to store lisp data to files.

-Joseph
From: Petter Gustad
Subject: Re: even with lisp, are websites just interfaces to databases? or can you skip the rdbms?
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Message-ID: <7d64egblzf.fsf@www.gratismegler.no>
"gavino" <········@yahoo.com> writes:

> I hate dealing with databases.

What about databases do you hate? Using CLSQL you work towards the
database much in the way you do with CLOS objects. However, you have
to use macros (or jugle strings) to make queries. 

Then there is AllegroCache and other persistent object solutions if
that suits your needs.

Petter
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