Conduit was built around sled in the past. It has been depreciated in favor of sqlite as sled was using too much memory. (and sqlite is used as a key-value storage)
As there is now an interface allowing to add several storage backend, more backends could be added later (for instance a real key-value storage rather than a RDBMS used as a KV-store)
They use their own matrix client : tchap. They also use their own app store (not sure what it's based on)
Therefore, French ministry that use matrix may not be affected
As there is now an interface allowing to add several storage backend, more backends could be added later (for instance a real key-value storage rather than a RDBMS used as a KV-store)
(according to the article)