OVSDB. Anyone familiar with it?

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Anyone familiar with Open vSwitch databases? Is this like a standard relational model database like Oracle or SQL server?

[photon]

It looks like it kinda is, I found this which describes the tables and it looks like a relational database as opposed to a name/value pair type database.

http://openvswitch.org/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5.pdf

But it looks like it might be different too, this mentions that the relationships are reversed compared to what one might think of as natural:

http://www.relaxdiego.com/2014/09/ovsdb.html

Here's the RFC for the management protocol

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7047

So a relational database but not standard doesn't look like.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Interesting. I'm wondering if Views can still be created and mapped. Might have to do more research into this. Thanks for the initial info, Photon!

[photon]

Skimming the RFC I'd guess no on the views.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I think you're right. Thanks again. Time to let our client in on the bad news lol.