Voting is open to all developers :) So your +1 is welcome.

As for my vote, i am +1 on H2. But agree with Andrea that we should not 
rule out a JavaDB version, what is one of the benefits of the 
referencing plugin system. But if we have resources backing H2, then 
let's go with H2.

andrea antonello wrote:
> 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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