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Reputation:

Can the iPhone only use an SQLite database?

Can the iPhone use other databases besides SQLite, like MySQL?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2110

Answers (3)

database
database

Reputation: 21

Not true any more!

The Raima RDM Embedded database SDK will also work on the iPhone. It's cool because it supports the network and relational models, and you can do things like having direct pointers to records for faster access.

They have an official port coming, but their version for Mac works in the iPhone Simulator.

raima.com/iphone

Upvotes: 2

Matt Gallagher
Matt Gallagher

Reputation: 14968

SQLite is installed on all iPhones. Theoretically, you can run other databases but since you cannot start other processes, you cannot run MySQL -- MySQL requires a separate process (the mysqld daemon).

Upvotes: 1

Robert Gould
Robert Gould

Reputation: 69835

The iPhone can only use SQLite as a database, directly on the device. This means there is no MySQL server inside the iPhone. But you can, and are free to have (your own) MySQL Back-end server, to which iPhone applications connect to. But Apple doesn't provide the server, so you have to pay the maintenance costs

Upvotes: 5

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