Re: Digikam-users Digest, Vol 243, Issue 17

Jan Steinman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I would imagine moving the db external to the machine running DK would come with a performance penalty due to the introduction of network latency.

It depends.

MariadDB on an SSD across CAT-V (rather than WiFi) could easily perform better than using SQLite locally on a spinning disk.

In my experience, MySQL (and clones) perform better than SQLite when there's a large number of records.

> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:50:57 +0200
> From: Thomas <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> 
> Thanks for sharing your experience!
> 
> A couple of questions:
> 
> 
> 1: How quickly does the homebrew package tend to be updated when a new 
> release of DK is publised?
> 
> 2: You mention that you moved from a local db to external Mariadb. May I 
> ask what were the major drivers for this change? I would imagine moving 
> the db external to the machine running DK would come with a performance 
> penalty due to the introduction of network latency.
> 
> BR
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> On 2025-08-20 13.17, Nick Seward wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>> 
>> I’ve been using the homebrew install of DK for over 3 years now.
>> I run it on Apple silicon, an M2 mini. I had it with the local SQL db to start and now I have it connecting to an external MariaDB database.
>> No issues or loss of features that I can see.
>> 
>> It may not be officially managed by the DK team but it’s always up to date.
>> 
>> Of course you can validate this by comparing the hash of the homebrew version with the downloadable pkg.
>> 
>> Nick
> 
>
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