why an SQL Database? (was: Re: Linux Wish List ( Email Client ))

[Richard]

On Saturday 24 November 2007 8:25:15 am Jan Torben Heuer wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> [kmail + sql backend]
>
> > in maildir or mbox format, its a better solution (But Sql Backend would
> > be better), plus Kmail has has better filtering than Outlook, but not as
>
> Why people always want to save everything in an relational database? I
> can't see any benefit in it. Yes, a good index can speed up searches, but a
> sql backend is in my eyes simply overkill.

Sorry, disagree with that, search over 800,000+ emails, and kmail crawls.
with Sql(ite)backend, hence one could search for many things,
allot faster than kmail every can on its own.

>
>
> Storing {java, c++, phyton, ...} objects in a relational database is
> another stupid story...
>

Don't know on this..

Richard