[ZODB-Dev] Packless, Mountable FileStorage?
Hannu Krosing
hannu@tm.ee
Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:41:41 +0500
sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
>
> Disclaimer: I haven't used any of the BSDDB3 storages, I've just worked with
> bdb before in C and perl... anyway...
>
> I think the confusing thing is that bdb is characterized as a "database,"
> and not simply a data storage api/toolkit with fast tree-based algorithms
> for indexing and retrieving values by key.
>
> In relation to Zope, bdb is simply a low-level binary file storage library,
> not a database library, in _any_ full sense of a "database."
IIRC bsddb supports most (if not all) ACID properties, it is just not
"relational" and does not have an interactive (S)QL.
If it stores data then it is a database ;)
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Hannu