Each BOINC project uses a relational database to keep track of participants, applications, work and results. The BOINC release uses MySQL. You must use version 3.23 or greater; previous versions have bugs that prevent BOINC from working correctly.

To use other SQL databases, you will need to replace the files db/mysql_util.C and db/db_mysql.C, as well as some of the PHP files in html_user/.

You must choose a name for your BOINC database. A single host can be used for several BOINC databases, but they must have distinct names.

The db/ directory contains the following SQL scripts:

schema.sql

Create the tables in a BOINC database.

constraints.sql

Define the constraints and indices on a BOINC database.