See also: Message Catalogs/Local language adaptations - Message catalogs, local language adaptations. error message tables, etc.

Locating Data Locating items in larger data sets. Indexes, Hashes, searching, etc

Up to Persistent Data - Gateway topic to externally stored and transmitted data.

(Perl delta 5.003 to 5.004) DB_File No qualified books.

See Also

How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?

How do I use an SQL database?

See Also

Tangram - Tangram makes Perl objects persist in relational databases. Tangram is orthogonal, fully supports OOP (multiple inheritance, polymorphism, object identity, collections) and gives access to SQL's query power. {(L)GPL}

WWWdb - WWWdb allows you to set up an multi-lingual application-framework which is based on a database. It allows per-user sessions and provides the ability to insert, update, delete, and browse your database-tables. It uses plugins to ensure data-integrity. {(L)GPL}

Btrieve tools de Perl - A Perl - Based toolkit for editing and manipulating Btrieve Databases, currently seeking developers. {(L)GPL}

dbishell - Database shell with readline support [command history, tab completion etc] based on the Perl DBI: Currently supports Oracle and MySQL, and has a generic module that provides basic functionality for [hopefully] everything supported by DBI {(L)GPL}

TextDB - If you don't have access to a database but you do have access to PHP, and you want your web data stored in a database, then this is what you're looking for! Full sql compatibility is planned as well as a perl port. {(L)GPL}

SQL Relay - SQL Relay is a set of daemons and clients with C, C++, Perl, Python, Zope and PHP APIs for maintaining persistent connections to Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Lago or Sybase databases and executing queries through those connections. {(L)GPL}

ObjStore Object-oriented database {Artistic}

Other Applications and Utilities

Inactive Orbits: (Not included on this page)

Xbase (formerly XDB) - Xbase compatible - Xbase (formerly known as xdb, also formerly known as xBase) is a collection of specifiations, programs, utilities and a C++ class library for manipulating Xbase type datafiles and indices. {(L)GPL}

(Perl builtin function) dbmclose HASH [This function has been superseded by the untie() function.]

(Perl builtin function) dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE [This function has been superseded by the tie() function.]

p5-DBD-Pg-0.95 provides access to PostgreSQL databases through the DBI

the perl5 Database Interface. Required for DBD::* modules. p5-DBI-1.14 The perl5 Database Interface. Required for DBD::* modules

p5-MLDBM-2.00 store multi-level hash structure in single level tied hash

an interface between perl5 and the database Postgres95. p5-Pg-1.9.0 An interface between perl5 and the database Postgres95

p5-Storable-1.0.10 persistency for perl data structures

Manage newsrc files. p5-News-Newsrc-1.07 Manage newsrc files

perl5 modules for accessing MiniSQL (mSQL) databases. p5-Msql-modules-1.1811 Perl5 modules for accessing MiniSQL (mSQL) databases

perl5 modules for accessing MySQL databases. p5-Mysql-modules-1.2215 Perl5 modules for accessing MySQL databases

filePro Open Source Projects - Design, code, and maintain a standard library for the filePro database. Design, code, and maintain a Perl DBI for the filePro database. Note: Participation by fP Technologies employees does not imply endorsement or participation by fP Technologies. {BSD-like}

Class::Eroot - An object persistence engine. Useful if you want an object to last longer than one invocation of your application. For object-oriented programmers only. [Perl] {oss}

Class::Template - Constructs "get" and "set" methods for structures and classes. Part of the Class::Eroot module. For object-oriented programmers only. [Perl] {oss}

Data::Dumper - Displays Perl data structures, and writes them to disk as self-contained Perl code. [Perl] {oss}

ObjStore - An interface to the ObjectStore object-oriented database; lets you store scalars, hashes, and references. The data can be retrieved from Perl, Java, or C++ speedily. [Perl] {oss}

cdbfile - An interface to the cdb package. cdb is yet another DBM in the spirit of the SDBM, GDBM, and Berkeley DB database managers, except that once you create your database, you can't modify it. The resulting "constant database" yields savings in both sp [Perl] {oss}

DB_File - DBM-style interface to Berkeley DB. See the AnyDBM_File module bundled with Perl. Requires the freely-available Berkeley DB package. [Perl] {oss}

DBZ_File - Provides access to dbz files, such as the history file in a Usenet news system. [Perl] {oss}

Msql - The interface between Perl and the mSQL and MySQL relational database management systems. Also see the DBD and DBI module sets. [Perl] {oss}

Msql::RDBMS - A relational database management system for Msql, using HTML forms as an interface. Requires CGI-modules, CounterFile, and of course the Msql module. [Perl] {oss}

Oraperl - There used to be a Oraperl, a Perl 4 interface to the Oracle database engine. It's since been obsoleted by the DBD for Oracle; see DBD and DBI. [Perl] {oss}

Sprite - Maniuplates simple text-delimited databases. [Perl] {oss}

Sybase::Login - A login widget for Sybase. You'll need both Tk and Sybperl. [Perl] {oss}

Sybperl - Interface to the Sybase relational database engine. Also see the DBD and DBI module sets. [Perl] {oss}

Xbase - Access to Xbase DBF files and Foxpro IDX and FPT files. [Perl] {oss}

PDL - The Perl Data Language, an ongoing effort to manipulate multidimensional data in a space- and time-efficient manner. [Perl] {oss}

File::CounterFile - Maintains a persistent counter in the filesystem. You increment it and decrement it from your Perl script, and it remembers the value forever. Uses file locking. Now part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Wais - Access to the freeWais-sf libraries. Wais (Wide Area Information Server) is a service/protocol for storing large text databases for speedy retrieval. [Perl] {oss}

AnyDBM_File - If you want to use a database manager, such as NDBM, Berkeley DB, ODBM, GDBM, or the SDBM supplied with Perl, you'll need this module. It's bundled with Perl.

DBIx::CGI Easy to Use DBI Interface for CGI Scripts

Other Libraries, Functions, and Components