[Dovecot] Berkeley DB with Dovecot

[Sven Hartge]

Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012 06:14:10 -0400 Charles Marcus articulated:
>>On 2012-05-20 1:48 PM, Luuk at dovecot <dovecot at vosslamber.nl> wrote:

>>> SQlite is only 61Kb, no config is needed
>>>
>>> If you start using MySQL, and the MySQL-database is changed because
>>> of some upgrades to the system that currenly uses it, it might have
>>> an impact on your mail-system....
>>>
>>> For that 2 cents, i would install SQlite!
>>
>> Out of curiousity...
>>
>> How is the performance of SQLite? I'm assuming it is only recommended
>> for servers that are not under heavy load...
>>
>> What are the main advantages/disadvantages of using SQLite over
>> MySQL?

> I found numerous links for just that sort of information on Google &
> Bing. These two seem rather informative.

> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2824135/how-fast-is-berkeley-db-sql-compared-to-sqlite
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/learnmore/bdbvssqlite-wp-186779.pdf

Hmm. 

Those documenets only talk about heavy writing to the database which is
not involved in the Dovecot scenario discussed here, where the database
is used as a data storage for the configuration which is mostly read.

So the question, how fast SQLite is during read operations compared to
BDB is still unanswered.

Grüße,
Sven.

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