* Jos Vos:

> 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).

But it's already part of the base system anyway.

> Why not use LMDB?  It's the replacement for BerkeleyDB in OpenLDAP.
>
> http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/

This was discussed before:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086784

I don't know if LMDB upstream addressed the limitations mentioned in
the bug.
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