Plain Text Database
===================

`GNU Recutils`_ offers a few command line tools useful for storing data in
appropriately formatted plain text files. This is interesting because plain
text files work nicely with subversion, are easily portable, and can be edited
independently of any specialized software installed. It should be obvious that
there will be significant limitations (performance, joins, concurrency, ...)
when compared to a more sophisticated database system such as PostgreSQL or
MySQL, however the portability benefits make this an interesting tool for
storing small sets of ordered information that should be easily sharable with
others.


Installation
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Installation is straight forward, and should be as simple as download,
extract, *./configure*, *make*, *make install*. This worked for me on OS X
10.6.5 with no apparent problems.



.. _GNU Recutils: http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/