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I’ve been struggling with this issue for a while. Our company servers lack any sort of database, i.e. no MySQL, MongoDB, etc in sight.
Since we can’t install any for reasons beyond the scope of this question, I was wondering if there was any alternative to that that I could use to save data from a form. (We collect prospect data through a form on our site which then sends this data in the form of an email and is plugged in our internal database through email2DB…)
You could use a library like SQLite
You could also use indexed files like Gdbm
However, you should think about backup strategies. Perhaps serialization should be a concern (and using textual or portable data formats like XDR, ASN1, JSON, YAML, …).
But you might also try to discuss with managers to install e.g. a MySQL server on a machine. You don’t need a dedicated hardware for that, it can run (at least for development and test) on a machine used for some other things.