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diff --git a/extra/sqlite/README b/extra/sqlite/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8092fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extra/sqlite/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +This is an SQLITE3 backend for ERIS, implementing +https://eris.codeberg.page/eer/sqlite.xml + +Due to the foreign dependency and the fact that it may not be suitable for major +usage, it is not included in the main repo. I don't recommend using this backend for writing for two reasons: + +1. Since sqlite is a relational database, not a hash-table, fetching each +reference takes O(logn) time (with indices). This might hurt compared to a +hash-table O(1) in cases where there's millions of blocks. + +2. Unless your filesystem sucks at handling lots of small files, there is little +benefit over the simple file-based backend. This might be a major motivation for +using this backend in FAT32 (65536 max files in a directory ~ max 2GB of ERIS +data) or NTFS (lots of small files kill it). |