Operating Systems Supported by BDB

Currently we know that the BDB storage engine works with the following operating systems:

It doesn't work with the following operating systems:

Note: The above list is not complete; we will update it as we receive more information.

If you build MySQL with support for BDB tables and get the following error in the log file when you start mysqld:

bdb: architecture lacks fast mutexes: applications cannot be threaded
Can't init databases

This means that BDB tables are not supported for your architecture. In this case you must rebuild MySQL without BDB table support.