Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/07/2013 22:28, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage don't fix what ain't broken, but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db files get corrupted on occasion. I could move to

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:45:47 -0500, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Well, this is essentially a bikeshed thread... so why not chip in I disagree; all of these databases have distinctly different uses. MySQL/PostgreSQL: pick your poison. Relational databases. Will you have multiple

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/07/2013 13:55, Mark Felder wrote: If twitter was built upon a WORM database instead of MySQL they could host the entirety of twitter on a handful of servers instead of the gross MySQL+Cassandra mess they're fighting with today. I'd say their problem is not exactly solvable by only

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:12:37 -0500, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 02/07/2013 13:55, Mark Felder wrote: If twitter was built upon a WORM database instead of MySQL they could host the entirety of twitter on a handful of servers instead of the gross MySQL+Cassandra mess they're

sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-01 Thread Jim Pazarena
I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage don't fix what ain't broken, but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db files get corrupted on occasion. I could move to db5 or db6 OR MySQL, or even postgres. I use

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 1 July 2013 16:28, Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz wrote: I could move to db5 or db6 OR MySQL, or even postgres. snip I have no experience with the c interface for postgres or mysql, but also, do not know how much the c interface has changed for sleepycat 5/6 compared to the c interface for

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-01 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 07/01/2013 01:28 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage don't fix what ain't broken, but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db files get corrupted on occasion. I could move to

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:28:59 -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage don't fix what ain't broken, but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db files get corrupted on occasion.

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-01 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz wrote: I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage don't fix what ain't broken, but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db files get corrupted on