Re: [sqlite] logical to use sqlite to replace Berkeley DB ?

2013-09-14 Thread Patrick
Thanks very much Howard and Rob I am having trouble with my email settings or hosting provider and actually reading your posts from the archive online, I can't private message. I am not yet a developer but I really like open Cobol: http://www.opencobol.org/ This website is frozen due to

Re: [sqlite] logical to use sqlite to replace Berkeley DB ?

2013-09-14 Thread Rob Willett
Hi, I cannot comment on the speed of Berkeley DB, I am somewhat familiar with Oracles approach to licensing terms having spent somewhat more than £10M with them over the last five years :) You can accuse Ellison of many things (and I have. all of them unrepeatable) but being cheap isn't one of

Re: [sqlite] logical to use sqlite to replace Berkeley DB ?

2013-09-13 Thread Howard Chu
Patrick wrote: Hi Everyone After Oracle acquired Berkeley DB they changed the license. If people don't pay a significant licensing fee, it can now only be used for GPL code. I don't know Berkeley DB very well but I do know a moderate amount of Sqlite. I want to tinker with a compiler that

[sqlite] logical to use sqlite to replace Berkeley DB ?

2013-09-13 Thread Patrick
Hi Everyone After Oracle acquired Berkeley DB they changed the license. If people don't pay a significant licensing fee, it can now only be used for GPL code. I don't know Berkeley DB very well but I do know a moderate amount of Sqlite. I want to tinker with a compiler that uses DB, I was