[digiKam-users] Digikam on NAS with multiple users

[bgillson]

I currently run Digikam with both the albums and the databases running on a Synology NAS using MariaDB for the databases. My wife and I share editing and tagging tasks, but typically not at the same time.

 

I know this is not an ideal setup, and performance is poor. In particular, thumbnail generation and previews are only barely tolerably fast. However, the setup ensures that both users see all tag, face, and photo editing changes regardless of who makes them. We have about 200,000 photos.

 

Questions:

 

1. Will NAS / shared database / multi-user support be a focus any time soon? This was discussed as a possible Summer of Code project, but don’t believe it was ever picked up.

 

2. A bug entry/feature request suggests separating the thumbnail database from the other databases. This seems more achievable than the many features in the story for #1, but would likely address the most painful of the bottlenecks. Is it on the priority list at all? (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297922 – last comment reads, “This bug has been confirmed by popular vote.” from January 2019).

 

Thank you,

Bryan

[digikam-2]

I only speak for myself as a medium term user. see in-line

On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 15:49:06 -0700
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> 1. Will NAS / shared database / multi-user support be a focus any
> time soon? This was discussed as a possible Summer of Code project,
> but don't believe it was ever picked up.

NAS, shared database and multi-users are completely different things.

NAS:  storage, usually hard drives, somewhere on the network, as the
location, for either the photos or the databases. ==> many people
on this list have a similar setup. Going back through the archive
of the mailing list should help you. The most important is the speed
of the network, at least GigE or much better 10GigE.

shared database: multiple computer accessing the same data but not
always at the same time.

multiuser: concurrent access of the digikam data by multiple users at
the same time. This will be a monster/huge project

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> 2. A bug entry/feature request suggests separating the thumbnail
> database from the other databases. This seems more achievable than
> the many features in the story for #1, but would likely address the
> most painful of the bottlenecks. Is it on the priority list at all?
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297922 - last comment reads,
> "This bug has been confirmed by popular vote." from January 2019).

The thumbnails are already in a separate database:
thumbnails-digikam.db

Gilles will know when this became about.

To go network and mutli-user is whole level of complexity. Try
looking at pimcore or phraseanet or...
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> Thank you,
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> Bryan
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