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.
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