From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B63DBB81 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jAIG3hXD008654 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:43 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA16819 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [192.54.42.129]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jAIG3gH8025873 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:43 +0100 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A5F20025; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04293-01-8; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailhost.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (kaiser.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D3920005; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.54]) by mailhost.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC25326E87; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 3092) id 456BF34FFF; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3947F221BC; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:03:41 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Fischbacher To: Florian Weimer Cc: Oliver Bandel , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [1/2 OT] Indexing (and mergeable Index-algorithms) In-Reply-To: <87hdaayolx.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Message-ID: References: <20051116234238.GA5741@first.in-berlin.de> <87r79fjxy4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <1132325649.17170.1.camel@starlight> <20051118142244.GF1116@first.in-berlin.de> <87wtj6yqbw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <87hdaayolx.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> X-BOFH: Daemons did it MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at physik.uni-muenchen.de X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 437DFB5F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 437DFB5E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 indexing:01 cip:98 cip:98 lambda:01 lambda:01 wrote:01 data:02 data:02 debian:02 debian:02 florian:02 physik:02 physik:02 gnu:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> No, it isn't. Berkeley DB offers much richer functionality, including > >> transactions and replication. > > > > However, crashes at unfortunate moments may lead to database > > corruption, > > All my crashes could be traced back to operator error and faulty > hardware. Berkeley DB has a very bad reputation when it comes to data > integrity and durability, but in my experience, this is simply not > true. I experienced data loss in the past - twice in eight years of running it under considerable load. Both times, we had good recent backups, so this was not a big issue. > > plus the license is a bit strange. > > It's a very simple, GPL-compatible copyleft license. Pretty standard. Hm, I just had a look and you are right. I thought I'd once read something about it being free only for single-server installations or non-commercial use, but I can't find that in the Debian package's copyright. Strange. -- regards, tf@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (o_ Thomas Fischbacher - http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf //\ (lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y) V_/_ (if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1)) (Debian GNU)