Postgres is indeed awesome - but pretty heavy for a resource constrained IoT 
client. It’s great on the server though.

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> On May 6, 2018, at 10:36, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> 
> PostgreSQL is a totally valid alternative as well. It is a real RDBMS, cross 
> platform, open source, with wide support. We have two network level drivers 
> in Pharo (PostgresV2 and recently P3) and it works well under GLORP.
> 
>> On 6 May 2018, at 19:10, Todd Blanchard <tblanch...@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Just out of curiosity, why do you want an OODB?
>> 
>> SQLite has a plethora of tools, powerful query capabilities, can be migrated 
>> with very little pain, and can act a bit like an OODB using GLORP.
>> 
>> I have lost too many data sets to proprietary OODBs to ever trust one again.
>> 
>>> On May 6, 2018, at 10:00 AM, horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just out of curiosity, which object database is recommended for Pharo?
>>> Something that is reliably up-to-date as Pharo changes.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Stephan Eggermont-3 wrote
>>>> Sean P. DeNigris &lt;
>>> 
>>>> sean@
>>> 
>>>> &gt; wrote:
>>>>> OT: It's ironic that Smalltalkers are often accused of NIH syndrome, but
>>>>> the
>>>>> first reaction of people from less "productive" languages/systems is to
>>>>> rewrite a working Smalltalk app in their language of comfort…
>>>> 
>>>> Indeed. And rewriting something that also uses an OODB is going to kill
>>>> productivity even more. I’ve taken a look at what would be needed to
>>>> support magma on pharo a few years ago. Chris always told us he uses it
>>>> professionally on squeak and has not enough capacity to keep up with
>>>> changes in pharo without having a customer/maintainer for it. Twice a year
>>>> or so someone asks about magma on pharo and takes a look. AFAIK there are
>>>> no real obstacles to a port, but magma uses a lot of deep implementation
>>>> specifics that will take an experienced smalltalker to deal with, and a
>>>> lot
>>>> of mailing list archeology as pharo changed a lot since magma worked on
>>>> pharo last
>>>> 
>>>> Stephan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
>> 
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