Version Migration

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 7:37 AM, james <garftd at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> OK,
> 
> So is using a database faster? Stable? Any advantages?
> 
> Worth the effort to participate in testing and development?

The only current advantages to using the database backend are that it saves changes immediately rather than every n minutes and it makes it easier to query from outside of GnuCash.

It's no faster, because GnuCash still operates from a memory image; it's slower to load the data at the start of a session.

It also doesn't make backups, so unless the user does there's no way to roll back to an earlier state. Since all changes are immediately written to storage there's also no way to abandon a bunch of changes by quitting without saving.

Regards,
John Ralls