competition

[Shuvam Misra]

> On 9/22/2010 10:20 PM, Shuvam Misra wrote:
> > I was a strong advocate of bundling DB libraries, etc, with Cyrus. The
> > points you've made here are very interesting. I didn't know many of these
> > things. I'm re-thinking whether bundling is such a good idea now. Thanks.
> 
> There's a lot to be said for the Mac OS X approach.  However, as someone
> already pointed out, most distributions won't allow this (for many
> reasons), so it's pointless to even talk about going there.
> 
> Better to just use an internal DB codebase (like skiplists) that has
> nothing to do with Sleepycat.  But then someone has to write and
> maintain this code.
> 
> I think the best compromise I've heard yet is to use something like
> skiplists by default and make the use of libdb an optional feature like
> the use of mysql.

For situations where we need just random access, not sequential, can we
use GDBM? Is that library better than Berkeley DB?

Shuvam