Favorite DBMS

[Matthias Andree]

Stefan Bellon <sbellon at sbellon.de> writes:

>>   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.

SQLite3 will be supported through future versions.

The plan is to ditch TDB as it's slow and I believe not widely used.
The split-out TDB is unmaintained, and TDB is not documented properly.

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Matthias Andree