Computeractive Sept 2025: best genealogy tool for Linux?
Another plug (less flattering this time) for gramps in computeractive
Computeractive 10 Sept 2025, Iss 718, p. 20 https://getcomputeractive.co.uk/
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There is a big problem with Ancestris, and that is that it uses GEDCOM as it’s working database file…
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Hello,
I’ve never tried Ancestris, but what’s the downside to using a gedcom file as a database?
Response time or limitations to information permitted by gedcom ?
Bertrand
Both of those are major limitations.
The original GRAMPS 1.x started with XML as the working data format. (A bit more structurally efficient than GEDCOM, but still the same concept of a text-based storage system.) Version 2 moved to a relational database (BSDDB) for performance reasons. (And to SQLite with version 5)
XML was far more extensible than GEDCOM for information that can be represented as structured data. But it was still too inefficient when the relationships grew complex. Inserts, changes and deletes took too long to write. And finding all the related records required moving too much data for every operation.
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Thanks for your answer !
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