No database is needed for req listed. (Score 1)

Your requirementsâ(TM) as you have described them would leave me to believe that you do not need a database. You do not need multi level locking, you do not need centralized access from multi users or machines, you do not need atomic operations on data, and the amount of data in question is not significant so no indexing is required. Just to name a few good reasons. In addition the over head with any resources used by any relational database would not be necessary. Simple flat files should do you fine. And as far as parsing them or formatting them a widely implemented interpreted language like PERL is perfect. If you make the data comma, âoe,â, delimited then open office can make use of the file for other types of formatting needs.