[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Offer LMDB as an alternative engine to BDB for rpmdb (#128)

[Panu Matilainen]

On 01/16/2017 02:51 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> On 01/15/2017 04:03 PM, Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure how true it is, but it seems to bear out with the number of
>>> previously BDB users now being LMDB users.
>>
>>
>> Unless a different DB offers substantial advantages over BDB to RPM, which
>> does not endanger or destabilize rpm, I do not see any reason to switch
>> different DB.
>>
>
> BDB 5 is unmaintained. There's no one upstream working on it, since
> Oracle has moved onto BDB 6. No one wants to use BDB 6. RPM should not
> depend on dead software. And there are significant performance
> advantages to LMDB, according to various benchmarks[1].And LMDB looks
> like it could enable making the RPMDB to be more resilient[2].
>
> [1]: https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database/project-benchmarks/
> [2]: https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database/feature-comparison/
>

Lies, statistics, benchmarks, vendor benchmarks... ditto with feature 
comparisons.

BDB5 being unmaintained is a real concern though.

	- Panu -