Re: Subversion's use of Berkeley DB [#11511]

* Keith Bostic:

> It is incorrect to say Berkeley DB is brittle when used as an
> embedded database. I can point to a lot of high-end server
> applications (Sun Microsystem's LDAP Directory Server, Google's
> identity infrastructure, Amazon's launch pages, and many more),
> all safely embedding Berkeley DB.

I think a difference between those applications and Subversion is that
Subversion is not just a client/server application. You can also use
the svn client to directly access a local repository stored in the
file system. I'm not sure if it makes sense to run full recovery each
time a user invokes the svn client.

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Received on Tue Dec 14 12:08:09 2004