John Shaft#Postfix 3.11 (for Workgroups!) released a few days ago with tools to mitigate the removal of #BerkeleyDB databases in some distros (it has been discussed for 5 years in Debian)
Howard Chu @ Symas#Oracle Linux 9.6 deprecates Oracle #BerkeleyDB in favor of #LMDB
https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/9/relnotes9.6/OL9-RELNOTES9-6.pdf
https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/9/relnotes9.6/OL9-RELNOTES9-6.pdf
CDE 2.5.3 released, now using #LMDB instead of #BerkeleyDB
https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/mailman/message/59264679/
https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/mailman/message/59264679/
jceaPython "bindings" for Oracle Berkeley DB 18.1.13 released. Now you can use it easily under ARM, RISC-V and others!
https://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#berkeleydb-18.1.13
Python "bindings" for Berkeley DB, release 18.1.12.
https://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#berkeleydb-18.1.12
New Python bindings for Berkeley db published!. Release 18.1.10. This release hits an important landmark: it uses Python Stable ABI. You can reuse the same binary with different python interpreters! https://jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#berkeleydb-18.1.10 - https://pypi.org/project/berkeleydb/ - https://docs.jcea.es/berkeleydb/latest/ #berkeleydb #python
New Python bindings for Berkeley db published!. Release 18.1.9. https://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#berkeleydb-18.1.9 - https://pypi.org/project/berkeleydb/ - https://docs.jcea.es/berkeleydb/latest/ #berkeleydb #python
389DS has switched their default backend from #BerkeleyDB to #LMDB. https://www.port389.org/docs/389ds/FAQ/Berkeley-DB-deprecation.html
The difference in config complexity is quite dramatic.
LisPiRegarding #email, screw the old #filesystem-centric non #transactional approach btw.
Program crashed while you were modifying a mail? Who knows what the on-disk file looks like now. You had it git-versioned? Good. If all goes well and git or the computer itself doesn't crash while updating things, that might be enough.
Even key-value #databases like #BerkeleyDB do it better, and they did so before #SQLite even existed.
So why can't I have tools using DBs?
@teajaygrey back when we were still using #BerkeleyDB, on a 5M user DB, #OpenLDAP authentication rates were over 2 orders of magnitude faster than ActiveDirectory on the same hardware and OS. (Even faster than that with OpenLDAP on Linux vs Windows too.) https://web.archive.org/web/20071214114023/http://connexitor.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=185#body
They've only gotten slower, while our transition to #LMDB got even faster...