>>> Howard Chu <[email protected]> schrieb am 20.03.2014 um 08:14 in Nachricht <[email protected]>: > Ulrich Windl wrote: >>>>> Howard Chu <[email protected]> schrieb am 19.03.2014 um 18:29 in Nachricht >> <[email protected]>: >>> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >>>> --On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:16 AM -0300 Friedrich Locke >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi folks! >>>>> >>>>> I wonder if, with the increased interest on mdb, the support for bdb will >>>>> be removed in a near future. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks a lot. >>> >>> See the slides from LDAPCon 2013. http://lanyrd.com/2013/ldapcon/sckyhk/ >>> >>> Since Oracle has changed the license of BDB 6 to AGPLv3, most network >>> services >>> that used BDB will be required to migrate away from it. (This also affects >>> Cyrus SASL and Heimdal Kerberos, but we already wrote LMDB drivers for them >>> 3 >>> years ago.) And since BDB is now technologically obsolete anyway, there's no >>> reason to continue to support it. >> >> Hi! >> >> Why is BDB technologically obsolete? Can you elabporate? > > I've been doing so for at least the past 3 years. Read http://symas.com/mdb/
Hi! When reading, you just say that MDB has some features BDB does not have. Does that make BDB obsolete technology? I think it depends on the user's demands. Regards, Ulrich > >> Regards, >> Ulrich >> >>> >>>> Hi Friedrich, >>>> >>>> bdb and hdb will still exist, but be disabled by default in configure, with >>>> OpenLDAP 2.5. Removal would be slated for OpenLDAP 2.6. > > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
