[syslog-ng] abandon libdbi and write a new sql driver?

[Evan Rempel]

We run ODBC on our systems and there is not another daemon to run. It  
is a larger "system" to get installed but when in use it is just the  
application and the odbc driver.

The only database that I am aware of that does not have a free odbc  
driver is Oracle.

If there is another general purpose database abstraction layer then by  
all means explore it. I am only aware of dbi and odbc

Evan

On 2011-02-22, at 6:30 AM, "Balazs Scheidler" <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The problem with ODBC is that it is a _big_ package, with a separate
> daemon running, and last I've checked database drivers are not
> necessarily free. (this applies to the unixodbc package).
>
> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:08 -0800, Evan Rempel wrote:
>> ODBC allows for prepared statements and is supported on all major  
>> databases.
>> ________________________________________
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>> bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Balazs Scheidler  
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>> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 5:30 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] abandon libdbi and write a new sql driver?
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 09:10 -0800, Matthew Hall wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:12:37PM +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
>>>> But I don't see anything against libdbi per-se, within syslog-ng a
>>>> similar API would be needed to cover all database APIs, so why  
>>>> reinvent
>>>> the wheel?
>>>
>>> Not having prepared statements means every insert requires a parse.
>>>
>>> That cuts the performance of transactional DBs a lot.
>>>
>>> Particularly Oracle suffers from this because generating too many  
>>> statements overflows its memory pools.
>>
>> I see, good to know. Thanks for the information.
>>
>> --
>> Bazsi
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