On 22.7.2014 17:16, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 22 July 2014 09:05, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On 07/22/2014 04:08 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>
>> The current plan is to not ship v6 in F21, and there are no agreed plans
>> to ship it in any future release either. See
https://fedorahosted.org/
>> fesco/ticket/1291 for the full history of the debate.
>>
>
> Yet Oracle advertises Fedora's use of Berkeley DB in a recent release
> announcement:
>
>
You are talking past each other. Oracle is talking about v5 in that release
even if they are saying it in a v6 announcement. v6 is the one that
Miloslav says isn't being looked at in future releases.
I hope that one day we will get rid of BDB and move to MDB:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086784
Besides other things it should have significantly better performance...
Petr^2 Spacek
> “Open source Fedora package maintainer, Lubomir Rintel, says
"Berkeley DB
> has quietly served behind the scenes as the database for the RPM Package
> Manager. It has proven itself time and time again as a robust and
> efficient storage engine. It stores the meta information of the installed
> rpms. Under heavy workloads, BDB proves itself reliable. Countless people
> that use popular Linux distributions have used BDB through RPM and never
> knew it. With this new release, BDB continues its tradition of being a
> solid storage engine"”
>
> <
https://blogs.oracle.com/berkeleydb/entry/berkeley_db_12cr1_12_1>