[pkg-db-devel] Berkeley DB plan for future

[Florian Weimer]

* Ondřej Surý:

> if your package depends on libdbX.Y you probably want to at least look at it:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/BerkeleyDB
> http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/BerkeleyDB

Are you in touch with upstream in some way?  In my experience, Oracle
has consistently ignored bug reports discovered by Debian users.  (See
#510270 for a particularly annoying example.)  I think the
fragmentation issue which plague large database on most Linux file
systems hasn't been addressed, either.

I fear that without a better relationship with upstream, many
applications should probably be switched over to SQLite, which has
much better backwards compatiblity, is largely self-tuning, and takes
care of the nitty-gritty details of crash recovery in a much saner
way.  (It does come with starkly reduced write concurrency and less
performance in some cases, though.)  I write this as someone who runs
a cluster of Berkeley DB databases with a gross size of hundreds of
gigabytes. 8-/