Hi,

This is a more general query about how commonly Berkeley DB is used in
conjunction with RPC and whether there are any issues which need to be
taken into consideration when deciding whether to make extensive use
of this regime.

I know that basically all the functionality of Berkeley DB is
available when accessing databases remotely (with the limitation of
not being able to use callbacks, such as user-defined comparison
functions). However, I am curious to know whether anyone has been
affected by other issues, aside from these documented limitations.

At the moment I don't have any idea about how common it is for remote
access to be used in real applications and I'd be interested to find
out how often this is used.

Thanks for any advice.

Mark

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Mark Stevens
Concept Systems Ltd

mas78910 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (Mark Stevens) wrote in message news:<c4a36f.0309030250.a5833cc (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>...

The RPC code is used, but it's a small fraction of Berkeley DB's
user base and Sleepycat's customer base.

People most commonly use Berkeley DB because they don't want to
deploy, use or administer a server. There are many server-based
solutions out there, there's no reason to choose DB's RPC server
over any of the others.

Regards,
--keith

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