Databases in 2.0

[Bart Cerneels]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Speaking of developer meeting, I'll start another thread about the
architecture review KDAB offered (via Maxx_k) at Akademy 2007.

>
>  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
>
>
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