Gladius DB is a fast and efficient PHP flat file database engine written in pure PHP. Its SQL syntax is compatible with a subset of intermediate SQL92. You will not need any specific extension to have it work, and it is bundled with an ADOdb lite driver.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
Support for LONGTEXT fields, a stable implementation of rowset pre-caching, the introduction of a database-relative root directory, and minor bugfixes.
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