Author: Jonathan Wilkins 2015-11-18 00:06:44
Published on: 2015-11-18T00:06:44+00:00
The discussion in the email thread revolves around finding a replacement for leveldb, which is deemed unmaintained. Douglas Roark provides a link to a Wikipedia page highlighting the bugs and reliability issues with leveldb. He also mentions that Armory had previously used leveldb and faced multiple user complaints of database corruption, particularly on Windows. Even after switching to LMDB, similar complaints persisted. Roark praises LMDB for its compatibility with Core's cross-compiling scheme and suggests it be added to Core in the future. The email thread ends with the bitcoin-dev mailing list information. Additionally, a link to benchmarks for various databases is provided in the context.
Updated on: 2023-06-11T00:37:31.954192+00:00