Once upon a time, Leonid Podolny <leo...@podolny.net> said: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the database here is several thousands rows in > total, several MBs in size. Every database engine should be fine. We probably > care much more about things like ease of development, stability, proper > locking and such.
On my fairly normal desktop system, /var/lib/rpm is 128MB. There's a lot of information stored in there: each RPM has a bunch of metadata, scripts, lists of provides and requires, and a list of all files and directories (each entry with its own metadata information). One requirement that tends to set RPM apart from some of the candidate database libraries is non-root read-only access. I'm not sure this is an absolute requirement, but I expect it would cause significant upset with system administrators if "rpm -q foo" changed to require root access. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
