Re: bdb alternatives (Re: Running Subversion on AIX )

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:44, Brian Olson wrote:
> I am not an AIX user, but this brings up something I've wondered about for
> a while. Alternate back-ends. Another db? What do we require out of the
> db? Would ndbm or gdbm work? Maybe write something custom tailored to what
> svn wants. I've heard that bdb may be a performance bottleneck; custom
> code might be faster.

I am interested in writing a custom back end, but after 1.0 comes out.
Other people are interested in SQL back ends, and Glenn Thomas is
working on virtualizing the filesystem code so that other back ends are
possible.

But for 1.0, we're mainly focused on the BDB back end. I don't think
any other free key-value database could be plugged in where BDB sits (it
needs arbitrary-length keys and values and also transaction support),
and a new back end is a lot of work.

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Received on Sat Mar 15 04:04:30 2003