Ulrich Windl wrote:
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.
Your reading skills need work. BDB is big, slow, prone to deadlock and corruption, and complex to configure and tune. It has only gotten moreso in each subsequent release.
Considering that the purpose of a database is to safely, reliably, and efficiently store and retrieve data, BDB is by every measure obsolete.
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