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#1886: Use SQLite For Big Config Files
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Written by doan the 29 Feb 08 at 22:19.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Use SQLite for big data files instead of xml files. This could be a huge improvement. Only config files should be saved as xml. Xml-parsing is very slow and the biggest bottleneck.
Edit: I meant data files such as file history instead of preferences.
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tchernobog wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:24
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I'm sorry, but I don't think it's such a big win. Moreover, XML is human readable, a binary database is not.
XML is easily changeable, a binary db isn't.
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ximen wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:28
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> XML is easily changeable, a binary db isn't.
XML (especially BIG XML) is NOT easily changeable or readable. Plain text in such case much better.
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ToyKeeper wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:36
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FWIW, ignoring human-readability, binary databases have some drawbacks not yet mentioned. You can't, for example, rsync a bdb file from a x86 system to a ppc64 system and expect it to work. It requires a dump and reload, instead. It also is more likely to fail when restored from backup, if the backup occurs while the database is open.
I'm not a huge fan of XML, but moving to sqlite seems like a step in the wrong direction.
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ronin wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:42
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so maybe YAML, it is human readable, but i don't know how about performance
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doan wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 13:24
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Edit: I meant data files such as file history instead of preferences.
I can't change the text.
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