Arjohn Kampman wrote:
> Matthew Cockerill wrote:
>
>> I wonder if the opensource Berkeley DB Java Edition might have
>> potential as some part of Piggy Bank's persistence solution?
>> http://www.sleepycat.com/products/je.shtml
>>
>> There is a hint here:
>> http://jena.sourceforge.net/contrib/contributions.html
>> http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2003/HPL-2003-266.pdf
>> that some work on RDF persistence with Berkeley DB java edition has
>> been done (using Jena rather than Sesame) by Chris Dollin, and that it
>> performs pretty well compared to relational databases.
>
>
> FWIW: we considered using BDB-JE in Sesame too, but decided not to use
> it as it would restrict free use of the combination in projects that are
> not open source. I don't know if this is an issue for Piggy Bank, so
> please ignore this message if it's not :-)
I strongly dislike BDB's license too. Avoiding commercial applications
of our software is not something we want either.
Besides, I keep hearing bad things about BDB fragility over time (see
subversion that migrated away from it in favor of a pure file system model).
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