Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Took a quick look at http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/ and on the surface > > seems like a reasonable direction/idea. So, not quite sure as to why > > you may consider this to be a big issue. > > If every applications starts its own copy of mysql, then this is > indeed a big issue because that doesn't scale well. There are, > for example, GDBM, Berkeley DB and SQLite. I've read the reason > why akonadi people don't use SQLite, but that's an old dispute > in akonadi development, so it doesn't convince me and sounds more > like some old prejudice. > > SQLite is used by a lot of applications for fast and concurrent > access to data. What makes akonadi so different to all these > applications? And if SQLite has problems, why not try to fix it? > The SQLite team is very actively developing their software. > > One single MySQL instance as central storage for all applications > that cannot use SQLite & Co. for some reason -- well, that might > be the future of Unix desktop environments. Sure, why not. But a > local copy of MySQL for every single application that needs to > store some bits of data -- that's no good design. > > However, I now understand that the decision has been made for KDE 4.2 > by intention, and it's not a Fedora issue, but all Unix distributions > that ship KDE 4.2 will require a MySQL server installation. The only > way to avoid this is to remove all KDE stuff. Well, until somebody > of the GNOME folks comes up with the same idea ... > > I should be happy that there's no dependency on Oracle, otherwise > I had to buy a more powerful workstation. ;-) > > Thanks for all the answers to my questions ... Andreas > > When I have more time I will look at it... However, I doubt that each application will spawn a new instance of mysql since that would certainly defeat the purpose of a centralized database. Looking at what little documentation I have...I am confident that it is one instance of mysql per user. -- Congratulations! You are the one-millionth user to log into our system. If there's anything special we can do for you, anything at all, don't hesitate to ask! Mei-Mei.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cCSz_koUhSg
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