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Re:What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? Wha... by evgen on Friday April 20, 2007 @12:24AM (#14943)
I would second the suggestion to try SQLite first (or give metakit a glance if you want something that lets you iterate over a table quickly) and concur with staying as far away from BDB as is possible...

The other advantage that using memory/fs has over a RDBMS for most simple applications is that unless you are doing complicated joins you will keep things simple and avoid introducing an additional layer of complexity and point of failure into your app.

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Re:What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? Wha... by anupamkapoor on Friday April 20, 2007 @01:50AM (#14964)
may you please explain why BDB sucks ? thanks !
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Re:What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? Wha... by ralph on Saturday April 21, 2007 @07:24AM (#15445)
Seconded, please explain. I don't have a view but was wondering about using Berkeley DB, including its replication, to have the web server running on each machine, with the BDB library linked in. Each machine would be a web server but also one of the replication group, with one master and many replicas. Writes go to the master, reads can be shared around the replicas.

BDB seems pretty flexible in policy decisions, e.g. the master can say the commit is complete when it hears back from N replicas depite not having written to disc itself yet.

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