On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak < and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
> > On 03/27/2013 04:57 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> Well Derby does seem to be "embed-able ". See: >> >> http://db.apache.org/derby/**papers/DerbyTut/embedded_**intro.html<http://db.apache.org/derby/papers/DerbyTut/embedded_intro.html> >> >> This has been suggested before, as early as 2006. See: >> >> http://markmail.org/message/**kp5n2d5yzhprgpjm<http://markmail.org/message/kp5n2d5yzhprgpjm> >> >> Still, is any embedded DB a good thing? Pros and cons... >> > PRO: > * Very convenient for small things. Imagine if I said that you can write a > document in Write, but you must first install an external application that > Write will connect to. This is rather daunting for new users. Also, most > external systems I expect probably use multiple files, so, if I want to > simply create something small and send it to you, well, I can't do that > easily unless I zip up a directory, send it to you, and then expect you to > install the same DB that I used and then make it work. So, it boils down > to an ability to create a small single file DB. > > CON: > * Our current Embedded DB works poorly with large DB, and someone who does > not know better may try to create a very large DB and have performance > issues. > > If it is not reliable, then it is probably better to not exist. > > > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: > http://www.pitonyak.org/**AndrewMacro.odt<http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt> > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > This has been a very good discussion so far. I would again like to emphasize two things about our current situation/implementation: * the requirement of Java 6 by end users to get acceptable performance from Base. (More testing of builds will be needed to determine if this holds true for Java 7 and HSQL 2.2.9. Perhaps additional changes are needed to the connectivity portions of AOO). * the current and perhaps future issues in terms of development maintenance for the embedded DB In any case, we need to keep in mind this is a volunteer community. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Achieving happiness requires the right combination of Zen and Zin."
