Internal Database Server ???

[BuckSkin]

I just found this in some literature that appeared when I first opened my new version of DigiKam:

"Internal database server require to install localy a database backend for Windows, as Mysql or MariaDB."

This may be a dumb question; but, is this something that DigiKam automatically took care of; or, is it something that I need to do ?

Thanks for reading.

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

It's done automatically by digiKam. The internal server want mean a stanalone instance of mariadb or mysql storing database in local, and queried through a local socket. The server is not available outside of course. It's "internal".

So typically it's a replacement of sqlite for huge collection, even if sqlite work better and better in this case, since it used everywhere for local database. LightRoom for ex, use sqlite...

And this is a problem for LightRoom which cannot be used through the network, due to technical limitation of sqlite in this context.

Gilles Caulier

2017-04-11 11:28 GMT+02:00 BuckSkin <[hidden email]>:

I just found this in some literature that appeared when I first opened my new
version of DigiKam:

"Internal database server require to install localy a database backend for
Windows, as Mysql or MariaDB."

This may be a dumb question; but, is this something that DigiKam
automatically took care of; or, is it something that I need to do ?

Thanks for reading.



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[BuckSkin]

Thank you for the explanation.