On 7-Sep-07, at 3:25 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Silly question...(do I ask any other? :-)
>
> What exactly makes a database "multiuser", according to the license?
>
> RB Standard has a single-user license.
>
> If you make an application that lets two or three people use a client
> program that connects over a socket to a server application, like
> an RB
> web server made by the standard version and stores wiki-like
> entries in
> the database...is it single user because it's only one database being
> used by one application, the server? Or is it multiuser because
> multiple people are using (non-database equipped) clients to
> communicate
> with the server application that does use the database?
Neither :)
Concurrency control of transactions is what determines if a database
is multiuser or not.
SQLite is single user (only 1 transaction at a time) regardless of
how many people are using it (including REALSQL Server)
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