Its mainly because it was purchased by Oracle. BDB provided transaction
support. Innodb has been the defacto choice for a ACID transactions,
but Innodb was also purchased by Oracle in its attempt to kill MySQL
after its failed attempt to purchase MySQL. That's why MySQL has been
working on their own storage engine as well as the pluggable storage system.
Curtis
David Giragosian wrote:
On 7/21/08, Moon's Father <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Maybe something to do with this: *BDB support will be removed. * Note that,
as of MySQL 5.1, BDB isn't supported any longer.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/bdb-storage-engine.html
But you're right that as a storgage engine, there have been very few
questions related to it, on this mailing list anyway.