Ulrich Windl wrote: >>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> schrieb am 25.07.2019 um 16:31 in > Nachricht <2537EDE10877E990D54B64FF@[192.168.1.39]>: >> --On Thursday, July 25, 2019 12:12 PM +0200 Ondřej Kuzník >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> What I don't like is the strong focus on one (LMDB) database backend, >>>> despite of all the stupid things Oracle does. >>> >>> There are big issues with the two BerkeleyDB backends for many >>> installations so it had to be abandoned. I'll let Howard or Quanah take >>> this part of the discussion further should they choose to. >>> >>> Unfortunately, no other backend is in shape to be useable as a main >>> database in production. >> >> BerkeleyDB 6 and later are not license compatible with OpenLDAP. Thus one >> of the "stupid" things Oracle did is ensure the removal of the back-bdb and > >> back-hdb backends from OpenLDAP as well as BerkeleyDB from numerous other >> pieces of software. It has already been noted that back-bdb/hdb are >> deprecated and that the supported primary database backend going forward >> from that point was back-mdb. > > But if the license is the only problem, users still could use an older version > ("last good") of BDB. To me I always had the impression that you want to push > MDB, not because it's better, but because it's yours.
LMDB is demonstrably better than BDB in every way. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
