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Re: mdb and bdb

To: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>, Friedrich Locke <friedrich.locke@gmail.com>, openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: mdb and bdb
From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:29:00 -0700
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Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

--On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:16 AM -0300 Friedrich Locke
<friedrich.locke@gmail.com> wrote:




Hi folks!

I wonder if, with the increased interest on mdb, the support for bdb will
be removed in a near future.

Thanks a lot.


See the slides from LDAPCon 2013. http://lanyrd.com/2013/ldapcon/sckyhk/

Since Oracle has changed the license of BDB 6 to AGPLv3, most network servicesthat used BDB will be required to migrate away from it. (This also affectsCyrus SASL and Heimdal Kerberos, but we already wrote LMDB drivers for them 3years ago.) And since BDB is now technologically obsolete anyway, there's noreason to continue to support it.

Hi Friedrich,

bdb and hdb will still exist, but be disabled by default in configure, with
OpenLDAP 2.5.  Removal would be slated for OpenLDAP 2.6.



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References:
- mdb and bdb
  - From: Friedrich Locke <friedrich.locke@gmail.com>
- Re: mdb and bdb
  - From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>

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