On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:28:13AM +0200, Jos Vos wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:14:07AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > The web page has: > > > > Improvements and stabilization of "ndb" (New RPM DB Format database > > format) > > > > [...] > > > > The problem is that "NDB" is a custom homebrew database invented in > > the RPM codebase. I agree that because of licensing problems we need > > to move away from Berkeley DB, but why not switch to the obvious, > > bulletproof choice - Sqlite? > > SQLite is is totally different piece of cake (RDBMS vs. key/value). > > Why not use LMDB? It's the replacement for BerkeleyDB in OpenLDAP. > > http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/ > > It's extremely fast...
TBH I'm not fussed about what specific technology is used as long as it's not some homebrew thing, is battle-tested, and is reasonably widely available with as few external dependencies as possible. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
