[GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Question

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Jan 17 10:56:57 EST 2019


On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 07:45:32AM -0500, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
> BerkelyDB might be another option for storing an enbedded application's
> non-volatile data.
> 
> BerkelyDB is now owned by Oracle, but I believe there is an open-source
> version available) BerkelyDB could be more performant than SQLite and also
> could have a smaller footprint. In complexity, BerkelyDB would fit between
> SQLite and parsing the embedded app's non-volatile date out of a file(s) in
> the barebones filesystem.
> 
> I myself an considering migrating a PostgreSQL database (used by a PHP-based
> website app) to (an open source version of) BerkelyDB, because of the
> BerkelyDB claim that it requires "zero administration". If true, this "zero
> administration" feature sounds to me like a great fit for an embedded app..

Well some people have a problem with the AGPL 3.0 license that berkeley
db uses.  Depends entirely on what you are doing whether that is a
problem or not.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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