IMDB ?
Quite standard to mean in-memory DB
++Cyrille
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Subject: MDB name
What's in a
Quick answer: Don't know. Longer:
It'd be nice to do if that would avoid most nameclashes, but as Michael
says, db will clash. E.g. I thought of sdb (single-level store)
or odb (Openldap's DB). But they clash with OpenOffice databases which
is perhaps worse than with Microsoft stuff.
.mmdb (M
Howard Chu wrote:
> I'm not sure that we need to change the name; I was asking the question.
As said: Personally I don't think that a name change is needed.
In your presentation you said you want to provide a stand-alone lib e.g. for
SASL etc. So it's rather a question on how to name the lib to a
Michael Ströder wrote:
Howard Chu wrote:
What's in a name... Apparently "MDB" is already a well-known suffix for
Microsoft Access database files. "mdb" is also the name of a debugger tool in
Solaris. To avoid confusion with those unrelated items, it might be a good
idea to rename our MDB to some
Howard Chu wrote:
> What's in a name... Apparently "MDB" is already a well-known suffix for
> Microsoft Access database files. "mdb" is also the name of a debugger tool in
> Solaris. To avoid confusion with those unrelated items, it might be a good
> idea to rename our MDB to something else. Now, b
Maucci, Cyrille wrote:
IMDB ?
Quite standard to mean in-memory DB
That would be a misnomer in this case. OpenLDAP MDB is not an in-memory DB.
In-memory DBs *only* use RAM in their normal operation, and an auxiliary
procedure is used to make backups, replicas, or whatever other mechanism is