Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 09:56:12 -0700 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> 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: <20070511165612.GA48097@lizzy.catnook.local> In-Reply-To: <17988.35412.231093.411177@bhuda.mired.org> 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>
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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. -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
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