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Re: Antw: Re: mdb and bdb
>>> Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> schrieb am 20.03.2014 um 08:14 in Nachricht
<532A9562.6070301@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/
Hi!
When reading, you just say that MDB has some features BDB does not have. Does that make BDB obsolete technology? I think it depends on the user's demands.
Regards,
Ulrich
>
>> 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.
>
>
> --
> -- Howard Chu
> CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
> Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
> Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/