On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 17:30 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 30.10.2012, at 2.16, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > Have you ever thought about adding a "real" DB backend? Nothing against > > dbox... :) ... and I have no performance comparison of dbox with what > > could be done with a DBMS... but the advantage of the later would be > > that you get all fancy features from database systems for free... like > > fast indexing, online replication, etc. p.. > > One might even reuse something like AOX for this.
> SQL indexes aren't very helpful for IMAP-like data. It would be fun to > some day have SQL backend in Dovecot (there already is read-only > INBOX-only SQL backend), but I don't expect it to have very good > performance. I see... well I haven't tested AOX or dbmail so far (especially as they're not in Debian and I was too lazy till now to compile them)... At least I had the impression that performance (especially in searches) was one of the major things these people were proud of. I'll stay tuned, whether we ever see a fully usable SQL backend for Dovecot :) Cheers, Chris.
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