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Subject: Re: Proposal for alleviating disk read / write time
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:

> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>>    Clarifications and comments are more than welcome. I really
>> appreciate it.
>
> Hmm, your requirements look more and more like a... database? :)
>
> [whistling away...]

I know. The only catch is that the last time I brought up databases it turned into a big discussion, where I got the following (paraphrased) opinions:

1. MySQL rules -- BDB sucks!
2. It'll be a cold day in %$#@ before SQL is included in the base system -- even SQL-Lite.
3. BDB isn't non-atomic and not stable.

Unless something more constructive is going to be discussed, I'm not going to pursue that semi-bikeshed topic again.

-Garrett