GNU recutils: Plain text database

On the topic of plain text databases, I have been playing around with wordnet(basically the backbone data structure of a thesaurus ) and while there are a lot of perfectly good libraries to handle the data I was having fun building my own. One interesting thing is that the original data format has the byte offset of every record and link baked into the data, this makes it trivial to avoid having to load the whole thing into memory and…

From the FAQ: > Why is the logo depicting a pair of copulating turtles? > > Ask [email protected]. > What is the name of the turtles? > > They are called Fred and George. And yes, they are both male. 3 of 5 of the questions in the FAQ are about these 2 turtles... Here I just wanted to know how different this was from something like noSQL.

At CurrySoftware we use recfiles combined with git for all business-processes (incoming and outgoing invoices, customers, etc). It allows us to automate everything we want with simple bash scripts. But we remain flexible because we can perform non-automated tasks manually.

This page contains probably what most of us are looking for: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/A-Little-Exampl... It somewhat looks like a predecessor of YAML with some kind of header integrating some schema or so.