Re: [DotGNU]Backend Database Support

[Stephen Compall]

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On Wednesday 16 April 2003 06:27 am, Chris Smith wrote:
> I'm thinking of supporting Berkeley DB by default as that supports
> everything the DGEE will need , including transactions (that can be
> integrated into goldwater to support transactions across multiple
> machines and databases!) and as it's embedded it removes the
> requirement of having to keep a database running in the background
> (yet another 'server' to manage!).

What is the difference between this and one of the DBMs, such as
Berkeley DBM and GNU DBM?

And somehow I doubt that transaction support is that simple :-\

> I want to check the licencing issues.  I don't propose that BDB ever
> shipped with DGEE, it just needs to be installed on the target
> machine, and you could always build against another DB vendor if you
> want...

The license is GPL compatible, according to the GNU license list.

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