Databases in 2.0

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

I will just add my comments to Sven's mail

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Sven Krohlas <sven at asbest-online.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  at FOSDEM Nikolaj and I had the chance to talk to Lenz Grimmer,
>  Community Relations Manager from MySQL GmbH in Germany.
>
>  Currently I had the impression, that we want to switch to SQLite
>  alone but after talking to him I think MySQL Embedded will be the
>  best solution.

At least I think it is something worth investigating.

>  It seems to offer:
>  *same performance as MySQL (as it is using the same code, as far as
>  I understood him, Nikolaj may have details here)
>  *runs with Linux, Windows, Mac
>  *it is easily able to use a real server, so collection sharing would
>  still be possible (moving the database to a real server just means
>  copying the local files to it).

No, thats not how I understood it. The local files cannot be used on a
standalone server, but since the format and interface of the embedded
and real server are the same, it will be very simple to do a dump of
the local database and import this on a real server.


>  I have Lenzs card here, so if we decide to have a closer look I can
>  call him.

I also have his card. He also mentioned the possibility of having a
mysql consultant join us a t a future developer meeting if we were
interested.

I am already playing around with it on this laptop, but I am having
some isses linking with the distro version of the embedded lib. I will
play with it some more!

- Nikolaj