Re: OpenLDAP: BerkeleyDB vs LDBM

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Carlos Narváez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to know what are the differences between using BerkeleyDB or
> LDBM as backend, and if i use LDBM, what are the differences using
> BerkeleyDB or GDBM as API? Which is faster, or more stable? In which
> cases is better to use one instead of the other?

BerkeleyDB and LDBM are database libraries, not backends.

The difference between the back-bdb backend and the back-ldbm backend is that 
back-bdb works, and back-ldbm doesn't. That's why back-ldbm has been deleted 
from OpenLDAP 2.4.
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