Re: [DotGNU]Backend Database Support

[Chris Smith]

On Wednesday 16 Apr 2003 23:05, Stephen Compall wrote:

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

Berkeley DBM is a subset of Berkeley DB, supported for backwards 
compatibility.

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

Transactions are never simple.  Berkeley DB supports full commit and rollback 
(redo logs and so on) and is on the whole very feature-ful.
This may give me the oportunity to implement the X-Open complient ATMI hooks 
in Goldwater, since Goldwater was designed to be able to support transactions 
across service calls locally and across-machines.  Across machines is tricky 
but managable.

Anyway, that's going off topic as we don't need transaction support right now 
(the VRS will though).

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

Thought so.
Most GNU/Linux (at least) distributions come with Berkely DB of some sort 
don't they?

Could people check their flavours of Linux/Mac OS X/random un*xs ????
Thanks

Chris


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