Hi, aware of the fact that I can't vote, I will anyway give my comment
(in case of an even, this might count as a 0.0001) :)

+1 for H2 for obvious JGrass reasons and because the indexes seems to
be not too far
+1 for spatialite whenever it will come

Ciao,
Andrea


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Andrea Aime<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> so it seems we might need to reach an agreement on the embedded db to use.
>
> H2 pros:
> - frequent releases
> - fast
> - already used in GeoWebCache, GeoServer and JGrass
> - already used in GeoTools modules
> - can probably use the EPSG sql dumps directly (it
>   has sql compatibility modes for mysql, oracle
>   and postgres, we need to find which  one works the best)
> H2 cons:
> - one man show
>
> JavaDB pros:
> - supported by Sun
> - the community version of it, Derby, is not a one
>   man show
> JavaDB cons:
> - supported by Sun (pray never to find a bug or you'll wait
>   for the fix for a long long time)
> - would be an extra dependency for GeoWebCache, GeoServer and JGrass
>
> Votes? I'm +1 on H2, +0 on JavaDB, would be more interested in
> Derby instead if we went down that path.
>
> Oh... mind, we can also have both modules I guess, provided we
> have enough people to back each of them. I think people time
> would be better spent doing something other than duplicating
> work, but in the end in OS the discriminator is the will to
> do something, independent of what kind of duplication that
> might cause.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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