What are the differences between GNU's implementation of dbm and Microsoft's MDB (access) database.

Which is the most stable??

does these formats support concurrent-access ?

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    MDB files are crap in any implementation. Start using a real database engine.

      8 months later

      Previous Poster made a typo, he typed MDB, but he meant DBM.

      DBM can be found on most common UNIX distributions (including Linux). It is a basic database management system. It is not an SQL compliant database management system thus it is not quite as suitable for applications involving frequent modifications, updates, and complex queries. Nonetheless, it is frequently used by applications on Unix systems for indexing and storing information which is relatively static in nature. In most circumstances it is more flexible than storing data in flat file format.

      So if your choise is only DBM or MDB and you want to use complex SQL Queries, then MDB is the way to go.

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