Thanks Edward,

Thank you that confirms what I found.
I also found that BDB is not available on Mac and Linux (alpha) architecture.

Best regards

Nils Valentin
Tokyo/Japan


2003年 6月 12日 木曜日 16:02、Becoming Digital さんは書きました:
> According to Sams Publishing (April 2002):
>     The Berkeley DB table type is a usable, transaction-safe table type,
> but it is not the most optimized table type in the mix.  BDB tables support
> the basic elements of transactions as well as the AUTOCOMMIT variable, but
> are not as popular or as developed as the InnoDB or Gemini table types.
>
> Edward Dudlik
> Becoming Digital
> www.becomingdigital.com
>
>
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> From: "Nils Valentin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: BDB or InnoDB
>
>
> Hi MySQL Fans,
>
> I am sure this question was asked before, but I did not find sufficient
> info, so please allow me to ask this question again.
>
> When comparing BDB and InnoDB which one would be (generally speaking) a
> better choice for a certain purpose ?
>
> I understood that BDB and InnoDB have basically similar features.
>
> Except BDB uses-page-level locking and InnoDB uses row-level-locking.
>
> There are some things which I am not so sure about.
>
> Does BDB support foreign keys ?
>
> Any response much appreciated. I searched through the archive back to June
> 2002 and in the info manual , but unfortunately I did not find what I was
> looking for.
>
> Did  I miss something ?
>
>
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