[GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Question

[William Park]

Thanks Chris.  As always, the go-to guy on database stuffs.
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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:54:57AM -0500, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> I'd be a bit reluctant to look at something belonging to Oracle; as well, I'd
> regard Berkeley DB as being fairly heavyweight in this area. as it has
> several storage managers/access methods, as well as a lock manager
> to support multi-user access.
> 
> By the time you pay for that 'weight', I think you're most of the way to
> being able to justify SQLite.
> 
> Here's a free form list of things I imagine are looking at...
> - Constant DB (CDB) uses perfect hashing to establish a
>   quickly-readable database; it has only two operations:
>    - Create
>    - Read
>   Note the absence of a 'write' operation; data is not to be modified...
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdb_(software)
>   http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/cdbinternals/index.html
>   http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/cdbinternals/pycdb.py.html
>   http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html
>   There are a couple of implementations (original one by the controversial
>   Daniel J Bernstein, with somewhat controversial license terms)
> - Worth looking at benchmarks.  Here's one for some of the classic kvp stores
>   http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/benchmark.pdf
> - It looks like a lot of the "cool kids these days" have been using
>   Tokyo Cabinet, and apparently Kyoto Cabinet is intended as a successor
>   https://fallabs.com/kyotocabinet/
> 
> - Looking at it a bit systematically, there's clearly lots of
> key/value pair databases:
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key-value_database
> 
> Closest to home, local developer Ozan Ygit wrote sdbm as a rewrite of ndbm
> some years ago.
> http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/sdbm.bun
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