2009/1/3 Ian Eslick <esl...@media.mit.edu>: > Hi Yarek, > > Others may add to this, but the big issues I'm aware of are: > > BDB > + fast > + can be shared among multiple processes on a single machine > - commercial use requires license > > Postmodern > - 5x slower than BDB (last I checked) > ++ can be shared among multiple machines > + open source > > Neither system allows you to easily bypass the elephant > representational framework. I'll let others comment on this vis-a-vis > postmodern. > > You can use both system's tools for archive, recover, duplication, etc. > > Ian
Messing around with postmodern backend's underlying database is POSSIBLE (I did it recently to implement a crude form of online garbage collection) but unpleasant. Rob _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
