nckx pushed a commit to branch master
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commit fda852ff40e978b77dd7c4e4fe44e5fe23eedd61
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Jun 14 18:00:07 2017 +0200
gnu: lmdb: Expand description.
* gnu/packages/databases.scm (lmdb)[synopsis]: Capitalise.
[description]: Elaborate.
---
gnu/packages/databases.scm | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/databases.scm b/gnu/packages/databases.scm
index 9691f1a..4aa8949 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/databases.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/databases.scm
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <[email protected]>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Thomas Danckaert <[email protected]>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Arun Isaac <[email protected]>
+;;; Copyright © 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -1356,8 +1357,17 @@ trees (LSM), for sustained throughput under random
insert workloads.")
(("/usr/local") (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
#t)))))
(home-page "https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database";)
- (synopsis "Lightning memory-mapped database library")
- (description "Lightning memory-mapped database library.")
+ (synopsis "Lightning Memory-Mapped Database library")
+ (description
+ "The @dfn{Lightning Memory-Mapped Database} (LMDB) is a high-performance
+transactional database. Unlike more complex relational databases, LMDB handles
+only key-value pairs (stored as arbitrary byte arrays) and relies on the
+underlying operating system for caching and locking, keeping the code small and
+simple.
+The use of ‘zero-copy’ memory-mapped files combines the persistence of classic
+disk-based databases with high read performance that scales linearly over
+multiple cores. The size of each database is limited only by the size of the
+virtual address space — not physical RAM.")
(license license:openldap2.8)))
(define-public libpqxx
