[elephant-devel] CLSQL Store

Ian Eslick eslick at media.mit.edu
Sun Jan 4 12:59:27 UTC 2009


I found this same discussion several places on the web and both  
Sleepcat and Oracle seem pretty supportive of the more generous  
interpretation, which is nice!

Ian

On Jan 3, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Alex Mizrahi wrote:

> IE> Is anyone still using the CL-SQL store?
>
> the poll says no one, except one vote in "testing" section
>
> IE> release, although SQLite support is the only way to use Elephant  
> with a
> IE> cheap, free, easy to install/ distribute backend.
>
> i think a backend using SQLite directly would make a lot of sense
>
> IE> but if you want to 'deploy' your a BDB-powered application in  
> source
> IE> or binary form you have to either get a commercial license or
> IE> distribute your application as open source (such as Subversion).
>
> explanation on BDB's site says that if you, say, use Elephant rather  
> than
> BDB directly, and Elephant is open source, that is enough to be  
> eligible
> for a "free" BDB version. it is up to a lawyers to decide if it is  
> such.
> i betcha if you ask Oracle directly they'll say "of course you need a
> commercial version" :)
>
>
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