Thread: OSDB.org

Anyone seen the new looking OSDB.org?

http://www.osdb.org/

Chris

Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when chriskl@familyhealth.com.au (Christopher Kings-Lynne) would write:
> Anyone seen the new looking OSDB.org?
>
> http://www.osdb.org/

Interesting; it points at Backplane (<http://backplane.com/>), which
is one I had not previously heard of.  It sounds rather like the
recent "clustering" version of PostgreSQL.

Their licensing policy seems to be derivative of that of MySQL:

  "Our software can be used freely, up to a point, in commercial
   settings."

With the line:

  "To anyone in doubt, we recommend the commercial licence. It really
   can't be wrong."

That is pretty sure to limit interest in it.  If you might imagine
using it for "commercial purposes," you might better consider
something more popular like Oracle or DB/2.

That being said, the design sounds interesting; quite different from
any of the other SQL databases I have seen.  The whole thing is based
on a replication/synchronization scheme, and watching for issues of
deadlock under conditions of particularly heavy load is likely the
grand challenge.
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Christopher Browne wrote:

> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when chriskl@familyhealth.com.au (Christopher Kings-Lynne) would write:
> > Anyone seen the new looking OSDB.org?
> >
> > http://www.osdb.org/
>
> Interesting; it points at Backplane (<http://backplane.com/>), which
> is one I had not previously heard of.  It sounds rather like the
> recent "clustering" version of PostgreSQL.

I was looking through their docs, and it seems like it's definitely an
early early release.

While it supports sub transactions, it has many gaping holes left to be
implemented:

the only data type supported is string
No support for OR in the where clause
No mention of triggers, constraints, et. al.

But Matt Dillon is a great programmer, I could see this database becoming
a contender in a year or two for certain types of use cases.

People:
>
> That being said, the design sounds interesting; quite different from
> any of the other SQL databases I have seen.  The whole thing is based
> on a replication/synchronization scheme, and watching for issues of
> deadlock under conditions of particularly heavy load is likely the
> grand challenge.

I've been interested in Backplane since it was announced; it's fascinating to
see a database server based on a truly *different* concept.

I notice that OSDB seems to have a slight bias towards us.    Is someone in
our community on that project?    If not, how should we thank them?

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