Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:16:41 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SQL in the base system (Was: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))) Message-ID: <4647F0B9.2000509@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070511165612.GA48097@lizzy.catnook.local> References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <f20c8u$htp$1@sea.gmane.org> <4643C7DB.6000408@elischer.org> <f219f6$3ls$1@sea.gmane.org> <17988.35412.231093.411177@bhuda.mired.org> <20070511165612.GA48097@lizzy.catnook.local>
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Jos Backus wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:23:00AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > [snip] >> How robust is it - can a corrupt block fry the entire database? > > Dunno, but "Transactions are atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable (ACID) > even after system crashes and power failures.". So it appears to try hard to > minimize the chance of corruption. > >> How about portability - can I move the file to a completely >> different architecture and still get the data from it? > > "Database files can be freely shared between machines with different byte > orders." > > (Quotes taken from http://www.sqlite.org/) > > Also, the code is in the public domain. Be wary of the possible fine print: "Portions of the documentation and some code used as part of the build process might fall under other licenses." From: <http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html>. -Garrett
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