<table><tr><td style="">rjvbb edited the summary of this revision. <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/transactions/detail/PHID-XACT-DREV-xwe2mqytnjfkul6/">(Show Details)</a>
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</span>On my question if there had been a recent assessment of how suitable modern simple key/value databases are as a backend for this feature, Sven said<div style="padding: 8px 0;">...</div></div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R32 KDevelop</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D12746">https://phabricator.kde.org/D12746</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>rjvbb, brauch<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>mwolff, kdevelop-devel, antismap, iodelay, vbspam, njensen, geetamc, Pilzschaf, akshaydeo, surgenight, arrowdodger<br /></div>