Blender and Databases

ronbravo · Post by **ronbravo** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:38 pm

Just a question about Blender and how it's made. I don't know how feasible this idea is but I thought this would be the best place to ask. I was wondering if there was a way to code blender so that a wider range of scripting languages could access it. I was wondering would it be possible to have Blender use a database to store its variable information? I figure you might then be able to use a scripting language that can access databases to write scripts for Blender. Again I don't even have a clue if this is feasible or not so I just thought I'd ask.

NielsBlender · Post by **NielsBlender** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:09 pm

ronbravo,

I reduced my reply to:
If everyone learned the 'common-interface-language', this 'CIL' wil become THE language that make others obsolete and deprecated.

Jesus: Everything is shared by the same standard.

jesterKing · Post by **jesterKing** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:42 am

See
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/DbBlender

and

http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/ ... etail/1806

for more information on work concerning databases as storage backend.

/Nathan

ronbravo · Post by **ronbravo** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:58 am

Thank you for the link. After reading that and this link on Blender's architecture:

http://www.blender.org/development/architecture/

I think Blender might lend itself to have it's data stored in a database. That was helpful. Thank you.

NielsBlender · Post by **NielsBlender** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:41 pm

ronbravo wrote:I think Blender might lend itself to have it's data stored in a database.

That would make any program-suitable; If you don't mind storing the same data twice...

If you make a database, holding functions to manipulate the existing data, you're a step in the right direction...

ps.
At the end, you'll probably notice, programs already always use a database, some even use an organized one...