> >Is FB/IB overkill for these types of standalone applications?
>
> Totally.
>
> >Are there other open source databases that are better suited?
>
> Undoubtedly. People love writing databases. Hunt on Sourceforge - you
> will probably be spoiled for choice.

Why not use SQLLite for this? It seems to be doing exactly what you want?


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Martijn Tonies
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