Favorite DBMS

[David Relson]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:42:22 +0200
Stefan Bellon wrote:

> David Relson wrote:
> 
> > What do you use?
> 
> >   1 Berkeley DB
> >   2 Berkeley DB Transactional
> >   3 QDBM
> >   4 SQLite3
> >   5 TDB
> 
> As you all know, I maintain the RISC OS port of Bogofilter. On RISC OS
> there was no such database available, so I ported TDB. That was too
> slow, so I ported QDBM and used that for quite some time. In the
> meantime somebody else has ported SQLite3 and I switched to using that
> because it's even faster. Berkeley DB is not available for RISC OS and
> I doubt anybody will port it in the near future. So, I would vote for
> SQLite3. If you decide to only continue Berkeley DB, then I'd have to
> split RISC OS Bogofilter from the mainstream Bogofilter.
> 
> -- 
> Stefan Bellon

Stefan,

Odds are that we'll only drop support for 1 DB, though it may be 2.
First, though, let's see what the responses are over the next couple of
days.

Regards,

David