On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:26:34AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:13:08AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > On 02/01/2016 10:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > Even if the RPM database is only accessed via librpm, it's still > > > important that the most central database present on every Fedora > > > system is reliable, well-tested and flexible. Sqlite is a highly > > > regarded piece of software, which runs on billions of Android phones. > > > > That's a strange argument because SQLite is optimized for the mobile use > > case, where durability is not a concern: > > > > <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/99223> BTW, in case people really believe that sqlite is "optimized for the mobile use case" (which it is not), this is link explains the properties: https://www.sqlite.org/transactional.html And this explains the use cases (which do included embedded devices, but much else besides): https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
