----- Original Message ----- From: Geoff Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cicciotomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [htdig] SQL database integration... > At 8:24 AM +0200 6/21/00, cicciotomi wrote: > >So I don' t know if the problem has been discussed previously. I > >tested the performances of ht://Dig with the Berkeley-DB and I did > >not find them very interesting. Mine is only an amatorial interest, > >but, shouldn' t be better add Postgres SQL (that seems to be a very > >good SQL database) libraries instead of using the cited database > >system? I think Geoff Hutchinson was working on a project to > >parallelize the dig process and to use clustered databases on > >different machines (Beowulf?). For this reason too, shouldn' t be > >better change Berkeley-DB with strong and releable SQL databases (as > >said Postgres, mySQL, ...)? > > OK, first off, I don't remember *ever* saying I was working on any > such project. It's a nice idea, but I'm neither the one to do it or > do I have the time to do it. > > Secondly, I disagree that SQL is necessarily better than the Berkeley > DB. Yes, we would like to give people the option of using a SQL > server if they'd like it. However, Berkeley is just as strong and > reliable as SQL and is used for storing terabytes of data. > Furthermore, the word database is probably best stored in a > compressed Berkeley database, especially on the grounds of disk space > usage. > > So yes, I will at some point be integrating Zoran's mySQL patches and > if anyone else wishes to contribute to that effort, it would be > appreciated. But the Berkeley DB is not going away for several > reasons: > 1) The compressed databases are almost always smaller than SQL ones > (usually by a lot). > 2) You don't need to set up a SQL server to get ht://Dig to work, it > works out of the box. (So to speak.) > > Both of these reasons are important. There are many webmasters out > there, myself included, who want something fairly lightweight. And > though complaints about disk usage are less frequent than they were > even 2 years ago, I think it's still a significant worry. Not > everyone wants to by huge disks. > > Sorry for such a long answer, but I wanted to explain things as > clearly as possible. If you'd like to help, please let us know--it > would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > -Geoff Hutchison > Williams Students Online > http://wso.williams.edu/ > > ------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You will receive a message to confirm this. > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this.
