Re: [qdbm-users] data migration from GDBM to QDBM

[Alejandro M. <am...@bq...>]

Hi,

a short answer from a mere user.

> For one of our applications we consider to switch from GDBM to QDBM.

please consider tokyocabinet for new development, as it is the natural
successor of qdbm.
http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/


> The spec from QDBM mentions that:
> Hovel can not handle database files made by the original GDBM.
>
> Regarding this incompatibity I have 2 questions:
>
> does this require the explicit removal of the original GDBM files as part of
> the transistion?
> suppose we require data migration, is it easy to migrate GDBM data to QDBM?

the easiest imho is a massive export/import using CLI tools. but
anyway it should be easy.


Regards,
Alejandro Mery