Re: Antw: Re: mdb and bdb

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Ulrich Windl wrote:
> > > > Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> schrieb am 19.03.2014 um 18:29 in Nachricht
> <5329D3DC.3060800@symas.com>:
> > 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
> > services
> > that used BDB will be required to migrate away from it. (This also affects
> > Cyrus SASL and Heimdal Kerberos, but we already wrote LMDB drivers for them
> > 3
> > years ago.) And since BDB is now technologically obsolete anyway, there's no
> > reason to continue to support it.
>
> Hi!
>
> Why is BDB technologically obsolete? Can you elabporate?

I've been doing so for at least the past 3 years. Read http://symas.com/mdb/

> Regards,
> Ulrich
>
> > > 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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