[logs] Filebased logfiles vs. SQLbased logfiles

From: Patrick Debois (Patrick.Debois@private)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 07:59:58 PDT


I'm looking for help in a discussion to decide to either log everything
in relational database or just keep logs in plain files.

>From the file perspective:

    * (+)DB normalization with a lot of different DB schemas seems a lot
      of work/impossible. It feels a bit like the google vs yahoo approach.
    * (+)Easier to calculate checksums on files: database queries
    * (+)You would avoid understanding all logfiles and parsing them to
      an "uber"logformat
    * (+)Files index more easily then database.





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