Re: RFC/Pull Request: Refs db backend

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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:49:20AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> I don't know how much that helps for the JGit situation. It punts the
> native code out of JGit, but people using JGit still have to have the
> native helper from git on their system.  I have no problems at all with
> pluggable $FANCY_DB that not everybody supports.  But I think we would
> want _some_ baseline that is reasonably performant, and that everybody
> will support. I'm not sure putting the index into a flat file is
> performant enough. Is there any basic key/value store that is has both a
> C and a pure-Java version (e.g., berkeley db)?

Berkeley DB has switched to the AGPLv3 for new versions.  Besides being
unpalatable for many people, it's also incompatible with the GPLv2.  I
do otherwise like Berkeley DB: it performs reasonably well and is
available on most systems.
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