Re: Real alternatives to BDB?

["Bryan Irvine" <sparctacus@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Marten Lehmann <lehmann@cnm.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  we are currently running openldap 2.2.13 with a bdb-4.2.52 backend as it
>  comes with RHEL4. We have about 50.000 cn's each having about 5-10
>  attributes with a length of no longer than 100 characters. So our
>  dataset is not very big.
>
>  We have a lot of concurrent reads since or ldap provides the data for
>  incoming and pop3/imap servers. But we have only about 100 changes/adds
>  a day, not more.
>
>  Yesterday we had the second bdb problem in our 1 year ldap setup. The
>  problem is, that we cannot really detect the crash, since ldap queries
>  just hang, but neither they timeout nor openldap is crashing. We just
>  notice the mailserver issues and have to track it down to openldap and
>  bdb. As with last time, we had to shutdown openldap and recover bdb.
>
>  Fortunately we have been able to recover the data-directory both times
>  using dv_recover. But in fact, we want to have a backend, that doesn't
>  crash twice a year. And as our setup is growing and we want to start
>  with replication, we want a backend to whom we can trust.

BDB worked very solidly at my last company.  I deployed a server that
had a couple hundred thousand queries per day (though maybe only
50-100 writes), and the server never crashed once and was still
running 2.5 years later when it was finally decommissioned.  It had to
be dragged offline kicking and screaming.  :-)


-Bryan