Windows-like registry for Linux?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Tue Feb 14 22:47:01 EST 2006


"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:

>>I would suggest Berkeley DB.
>
>
> Cool.  Thanks.  Not that I have actual knowledge of
> the subject, but I picture a DB engine as a somewhat
> ponderous thang.

Think if BerkeleyDB more as an on-disk hash than a RDBMS like
PostgreSQL or Oracle.  It's extremely flexible (the subversion project has managed to coerce a file system into it :) and very fast.  Check out:

  http://www.sleepycat.com - the makers of BerkelyDB.

Which just informed me that they've been acquired by Oracle! :(
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Seeya,
Paul



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