[...] >> ... uh.... have you looked at tdb? http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdb > > Nice code, limited portability however. Some network locking schemas will > grab the one-byte lock and lock down the page. Don't know if that will break > the schema.
Well, samba uses it pretty heaviliy. I don't know about the limited portability, could you expand on this? (is it limited to *nix or do you refer to something else?) > The other [obvious] issue is licensing. As always :-) It's GPL isn't it? > But if you cared to add the appropriate connector within apr_dbm, I don't > see anyone objecting. The whole idea behind apr_dbm is to extend to such > 3rd party databases such as the 'biggies' (ndbm, gdbm etc), or our own > lightweight solution (sdbm). > > We aren't trying to make sdbm 'the answer' to a shared database > across 1,000 servers in a cluster :-) Just a simple dropin where > no other (efficient) alternative exists. Right, good reasons :-) Sander
