Proposal for alleviating disk read / write time

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> 
>>>    Clarifications and comments are more than welcome. I really
>>> appreciate it.
>> 
>> Hmm, your requirements look more and more like a... database? :)
>> 
>> [whistling away...]
>
> I know. The only catch is that the last time I brought up databases it turned 
> into a big discussion, where I got the following (paraphrased) opinions:
>
> 1. MySQL rules -- BDB sucks!
> 2. It'll be a cold day in %$#@ before SQL is included in the base system -- 
> even SQL-Lite.
> 3. BDB isn't non-atomic and not stable.
>
> Unless something more constructive is going to be discussed, I'm not going to 
> pursue that semi-bikeshed topic again.
>
> -Garrett

The other problem is that using a database technology in place of flat text files will force less intelligent tools without access to lower level DB manipulation APIs (portmaster for instance) to depend on other apps to do the data store translation legwork for them.

But maybe that isn't a bad idea?

-Garrett