What database does Gnu Cash use?

[Phil Longstaff]

On May 6, 2009 11:43:07 pm David Reiser wrote:
> On May 6, 2009, at 11:25 PM, Bill wrote:
> > What database management system does Gnu Cash use? I need to export
> > some data in CSV format for use in Excel. Thanks.
> >
> > Bill
>
> It isn't a database, it's xml. See
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_can_I_export_data.3F
> for some options.

That's true for the 2.2.9 series.  Source code for 2.3.0 has just been 
released, leading to 2.4.0 sometime in August.  It will support sqlite3, mysql 
and postgresql as well as the current xml file format.

Phil