Re: [bitcoin-dev] [patch] Switching Bitcoin Core to sqlite db

2015-11-17 Thread telemaco via bitcoin-dev
Shouldn't a odbc jdbc jconnect or equivalent be totally transparent for the consensus code? I mean, the client would write or store the data communicating to the driver provided by the vendor. Using the schema bitcoin suggests adapted to many different vendors (one table schema for Oracle, other

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [patch] Switching Bitcoin Core to sqlite db

2015-10-29 Thread telemaco via bitcoin-dev
Why not allow two options: 1/ a default RocksDB/SQLite/LevelDB (whatever is decided) 2/ alternative provide instructions for connection to any other rdbms using odbc or jdbc. Why not allowing async disk writes or incredibly fast database systems if someone wants to have a node in a very fast

[bitcoin-dev] Why not checkpointing the transactions?

2015-10-08 Thread telemaco via bitcoin-dev
Hello, I have been working on database engineering for many years and there are some things i don't understand very well about how bitcoin architecture works. I have not written here because i would not like to disturb development with yet another of those far to implement ideas that does not