Jerry <je...@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2012 06:14:10 -0400 Charles Marcus articulated: >>On 2012-05-20 1:48 PM, Luuk@dovecot <dove...@vosslamber.nl> wrote:
>>> SQlite is only 61Kb, no config is needed >>> >>> If you start using MySQL, and the MySQL-database is changed because >>> of some upgrades to the system that currenly uses it, it might have >>> an impact on your mail-system.... >>> >>> For that 2 cents, i would install SQlite! >> >> Out of curiousity... >> >> How is the performance of SQLite? I'm assuming it is only recommended >> for servers that are not under heavy load... >> >> What are the main advantages/disadvantages of using SQLite over >> MySQL? > I found numerous links for just that sort of information on Google & > Bing. These two seem rather informative. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2824135/how-fast-is-berkeley-db-sql-compared-to-sqlite > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/learnmore/bdbvssqlite-wp-186779.pdf Hmm. Those documenets only talk about heavy writing to the database which is not involved in the Dovecot scenario discussed here, where the database is used as a data storage for the configuration which is mostly read. So the question, how fast SQLite is during read operations compared to BDB is still unanswered. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.