Re: MDB Status

[Peter Matulis <peter@ubuntu.com>]

On 09/27/2012 09:38 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> For those who haven't been following along, support for OpenLDAP's MDB
> (memory-mapped database) library is also available for several other
> open source projects, including Cyrus SASL (sasldb mech), Heimdal
> Kerberos (hdb module), SQLite3, OpenDKIM, and MemcacheDB. A
> work-in-progress patch for Postfix is also available, with a final
> version coming soon. A backend for SQLite4 is also in the works. A port
> of Android (JellyBean) for the Motorola Droid4 using MDB/SQLite3 is in
> progress (since my current phone is a Droid4).
> Other projects are also in progress and will be announced in the near
> future. The current list is also posted on
> http://highlandsun.com/hyc/mdb/ - feel free to suggest other projects.
> 
> OpenLDAP MDB completely outclasses other embedded databases (like Oracle
> BerkeleyDB, Google LevelDB, SQLite, Kyoto Cabinet) from every angle:
> performance, efficiency, reliability, administrative ease, simplicity,
> whatever. With MDB not only have we made the world's fastest LDAP server
> even faster, but we can also make anything else that uses a database
> even better.
> 
> I'll also be presenting an updated talk on MDB at LinuxCon Europe in
> Barcelona, November 7.
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/schedule
> 

Thanks for that bulletin.

Peter