Talk:Berkeley DB

message: The "Bug in non-Unix BSD versions of Berkeley DB" seems odd to me.
First, every program has lots of bugs; Wikipedia is not a bug database, and it seems strange to single out this one -- especially since it's for a specific old version of BDB.
Second, the "(source - first hand experience)" sounds like it would disqualify this content from Wikipedia.  Wikipedia is not the place for "new research", and if this bug/workaround isn't documented elsewhere, doesn't that count? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.117.4.242 (talk • contribs) 19:34, September 18, 2005.
: No arguments there at all. I've removed it. — mendel ☎ 23:02, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bug in non-Unix BSD versions

message: Under programs that use BerkelyDB, mySQL is listing at the top. Is there any corroboration of this? For example on the mySQL page it doesn't say that it's based on BerkeleyDB? dnisbet 22nd Nov 2005
: BDB can be used as an external storage engine, and is included. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/guided-tour.html mentions it briefly. Also, I've repointed that XA link to the X/Open XA page, http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/xa/xa_intro.html 66.188.220.27 09:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: MySQL

message: All articles should be inserted in their respective categories. If they aren't it is a PitA to get to them. Please try to leave articles without a proper categori inclusion --Mecanismo | Talk 19:57, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorization 

message: The Sleepycat free software license appears to be a GPL-compatible copyleft license, no?
Perhaps this could be mentioned? --216.114.171.141 17:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copying: Sleepycat license 

message: How about Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition ? See http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/je/index.html Nicolas1981 22:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 

message: I added a reference/link to an interview with Mike Olson that mentions the interaction with Netscape around 1996, but is unclear on the exact year. I added the "1996" to this article which already included the data point that this was before BDB version 1.85. This in turn roughly corresponds to this BDB version info I found on Oracle's site. Can anyone with more authoritative knowledge/Google-fu corroborate? --Jarsyl 06:15, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Netscape and Sleepycat 

message: I would like this page to have link to list of alternative to BDB non-SQL/emebed databases like CDB.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.222.158.239 (talk) 12:08, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternatives 

message: I get the impression from various sources that bdb keeps making incompatible changes to the database format. Can anyone confirm/deny this and explain if true why there is no mention of this in the article and if it is true why the hell anyone would use it? 130.88.108.18 (talk) 18:17, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compatibility 

message: 11g R2 adds SQLite API. See http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/063695 Roytam1 (talk) 10:06, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  SQLite API 

message: which type of an tree is a bdb?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.113.41.246 (talk) 12:11, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  type of tree? 

message: The standard contacts application on the Nokia N900 device uses Berkeley DB, too (I think it's named osso-abook).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.186.99.243 (talk) 18:45, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nokia N900 

message: Sleepycat License is a hopeless stub, that could survive here in the Berkeley DB#Licensing section. –Be..anyone (talk) 18:04, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sleepycat License 

message: The article currently states:
: The FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems continue to use Berkeley DB 1.8x for compatibility reasons;[6]
The ref points to a man page on FreeBSD. No mention of compatibility anywhere. It only verifies that FreeBSD has the old version.
I believe "compatibility reasons" is wrong. It's much more likely that they stick to 1.8x because it's the newest BSD-licensed version. The ones with the Sleepycat licence are copyleft which is not as free as the BSD licence. It's a well-known fact that the (Net|Open|Free)BSD try to avoid license terms more onerous than those of the BSD licence whenever possible.
(Besides, I'm digressing a bit here, but the software came from Berkeley, and the Berkeley Software Distribution tends to distribute software from Berkeley, so there's an inheritance factor at play here.)
(There's a case to be made that they stick with the old version because migrating to a newer version has a different on-disk format and would thus not be compatible though. But I find that unlikely.) --88.113.162.167 (talk) 20:10, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  BSDs & BDB 1.8x 

message: This needs some audit, IMO. Some of the proprietary examples look like ads/spam. For example:
Movable Type (until version 4.0) – A proprietary weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart
There are 26 examples totally. Obviously many more projects use BDB so it's not justifiable to have some proprietary weblog thingy in the article next to Sendmail, MySQL or Bitcoin.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2401:FA00:9:11:A019:56B5:8948:B4F4 (talk) 23:43, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Programs that use Berkeley DB 

message: GNU Affero General Public License mentions BerkeleyDB as an example, but here there is no mention of AGPL.  There should be. The switch to using AGPL is an important aspect in the history of BerkeleyDB. John Vandenberg (chat) 09:12, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  AGPL 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: It would be nice to have a page that compares the various embeddable database libraries, like Berkeley DB, LMDB, SQLite etc, but I don't seem to find it.
91.10.7.40 (talk) 19:55, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  comparison page? 

message: I did this on the basis that it is a 7 year-old Java interface library, and I couldn't find anyone claiming to be a user of it.
Dan Shearer (talk) 16:56, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carbonado moved to "past users" 

message: "BDB can support thousands of simultaneous threads of control or concurrent processes manipulating databases as large as 256 terabytes,[3] on a wide variety of operating systems including most Unix-like and Windows systems, and real-time operating systems."
This seems like one a theoretical statement based on the size of the data types in the source code. I do not know of any evidence of size testing at all, let alone to enormous sizes. I propose deleting this section. Even if the data structures support this in theory, it seems a stretch even to insert "theoretically" when describing BDB, which appears to be unmaintained by Oracle.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanShearer (talk • contribs) 16:04, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Performance Claims Unreferenced 

message: Bitcoin-qt uses BDB. It should be mentioned in this article. SubscribeTransport (talk) 06:29, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bitcoin-qt uses BDB