Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

Re:Jailer, a unique open-source database tool by babayega2 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:49AM (#37047526)

It took them time. I had asked the same problem few months ago [0]. I needed a tool to subset a huge PostgreSQL db. The choices where Condenser [1] and this Jailer. Since I'm not a Java guy, I was struggling to know how to properly run this Jailer. I'm glad they released a .deb format. But I ended up using Condenser.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975606 [1]: https://github.com/TonicAI/condenser

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Re:Jailer, a unique open-source database tool by jailertool2 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:58AM (#37047620)

May I ask why you decided to use a condenser?

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Re:Jailer, a unique open-source database tool by exceptione on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:57AM (#37048322)

Java is a huge plus over Python for me, namely type checking and ease of deployment.

I don't know either jailer or condenser, but I know that jailer@java has an unreasonable better change to have less bugs then condenser@python. Like you already noticed, condenser produces errors during run time.

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Re:Jailer, a unique open-source database tool by mmsimanga on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:13AM (#37048484)

I just took a quick look at condenser application you linked. Only supports Postgresql and MySQL. This is often the case with none Java tools. They tend to support a select few number of databases. With tools that support JDBC you will be able to connect to most databases. That is often my challenge as someone who works in BI.

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