Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone evaluation in commercial project [long]

[Florian Weimer]

* Richard Levitte:

> In message <address@hidden> on Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:29:15 +0200, Jon Bright 
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> jon> Derek Scherger wrote:
> jon> > 
> jon> > possible, but the performance might also be bad. monotone is
> jon> > quite chatty in terms of database traffic and sqlite happens to
> jon> > handle this really well, compared to out of process, talking
> jon> > over a socket, databases.
> jon> 
> jon> This is something that MySQL also handles well, providing at
> jon> least one reasonable alternative.
>
> How is MySQL on transactions these days?  Not too long ago, it didn't
> have them.

Both of the Berkeley DB and InnoDB backends support transactions.
However, external databases make creating monotone databases even more
complex, especially if you must install MySQL (or PostgreSQL) first.