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On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:34:30AM -0500, Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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> I agree, there needs to be a way to speed up those operations eventually... |
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> if only to index the tree so that seeks/searches are performed faster. |
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> Problem with berkeleydb (sleepycat) is... things that get coded around |
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> berkeleydb often stay married to berkeleydb forever, for better or for |
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> worse. I had some issues with berkeleydb in the past year with versioning; |
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> more than once it broke things on minor upgrades along the same branch. |
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> YMMV. |
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> I think it's perhaps better to make this modular. Write db modules, one |
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> for sleepycat, one for pgsql, one for mysql, et al. Leave the indexing |
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> data store up to the admin. The data itself indexed in a B-tree. |
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> XML is a nice output format for interfacing with other applications, but |
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> that doesn't mean you should store your data in it. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Dylan Carlson [absinthe@×××××.com] |
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Thanks, this is an answer I longed for. I like berkeley DB for its easy |
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and small C API. Of course there would be not much problem to use a |
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modular approach. I may try a easy prototypish approach with C in the |
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evening or tomorrow. Please inform me (mailto:<i.krabbe@×××××.net>) if |
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you want to have a look upon it. |
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BYE INGO |
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