Re: Berkeley DB is a non-relational high-performance system/paradigm - anyone looked at it? from Stian Soiland on 2006-09-15 (public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org from September 2006)

From: Stian Soiland <ssoiland@cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:02:35 +0100
To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Message-ID: <450AC08B.1060607@cs.man.ac.uk>

Bob Futrelle wrote:

> With all the discussion of RDBMS+SQL for leveraging reasoning, I was
> wondering if anyone has looked at alternatives such as the Berkeley
> DB.  It is a reasonably mature technology; acquired by Oracle earlier
> this year.

... and notorious for its instability and possible corruption whenever
you have more than 1 thread/process/machine accessing the same database.
(For instance, the BDB based backends for Subversion repositories quite
often got corrupted)

But hey, that's to expect when you go for a plain file-store instead of
something with a server backend. With a
single-thread-process-host-architecture it could work great.

Remember also that this is not magic "paradigm", it is just a disk based
hash table.

-- 
Stian Soiland
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ssoiland/

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