[ZODB-Dev] maintenance of a BerkeleyDB

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:10:16 +0000


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 01:44:04 -0500, barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw)
wrote:

>Berkeley storage doesn't add any additional requirements here,
>although two things to note:
>
>- Because of semantic differences in locking b/w BDB and ZODB,

How big is the semantic gap?

A while back, I got the impression that Berkeley storage would become
the storage of choice for large databases because it seemed to provide
exactly the right semantics. Is this still true, or does bridging the
locking sematic gap feel like a kludge?

thanks for your time,


Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com