On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Wellaway, Ian <i.j.wella...@exeter.ac.uk>wrote:
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> **
>
> **1. **What databases are supported by your product?****
>
> Oracle/Postgres****
>
> ** **
>
> **2. **For new installations what database do you generally recommend
> (does this differ for local and hosted or cloud installations)?****
>
> ** Postgres 8.4 or newer, no difference**
>
> ** **
>
> **3. **What database do you use for primary development of your
> product?****
>
> ** Postgres**
>
> ** **
>
> **4. **Do you have any plans to change your primary development
> database (if yes, please give details)?****
>
> ** No**
>
> ** **
>
> **5. **Where your product is supported on multiple databases, does
> client feedback indicate differences in performance or resilience between
> them (if yes, please give details)?****
>
> ** Yes, none of the commiters use Oracle anymore, so its support is
> lagging. We rely on users to report any problems with Oracle.
>
> ** **
>
> **6. **Do you have a strategy or policy for adopting new versions of a
> database?****
>
> ** No, we break backwards compatibility only if necessary**
>
> ** **
>
> **7. **Do you have a strategy or policy for discontinuing support for
> old versions of a database?****
>
> ** New versions of our software (which are released once a year) can
> change what they require (database version). This is documented both in
> User Guide and Release Notes.**
>
> ** **
>
> **8. **Any additional comments that might assist us with formulating
> our database strategy?****
>
> ** DSpace 4.0 due out shortly before the end of 2013 should contain a
> major redesign of the data access layer based on Hibernate, so it should
> reduce DBMS-specific code within DSpace and compartmentalize it, possibly
> even make it easier to add support for different DBMS (however, we are not
> planning to support any additional DBMS at this time).**
>
> ** **
>
> **
>
Regards,
~~helix84
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