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Many of you are already familiar with the DBI set of modules. DBI is a standard perl interface to lots of databases. DBI makes it very easy to connect to a database, and makes it fairly easily to support multiple databases.
I know that many of the potential Thokbook users will already have a database installed, and will not want to add another one. That makes it important to support as many different databases as possible. The current version of Thokbook supports MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Some users will not want to install a database at all.
Therefore, Thokbook also supports the CSV flat-file pseudo database, although it may be very inefficient for large numbers of books.
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