Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 11:23 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: >> i also think there is some mileage in using couchdb as the primary store >> and just have tracker index that. one of the strengths of couchdb is its >> mvcc architecture which means its completely corruption proof as updates >> are always appended to the db and therefore cannot cause corruption of >> existing data. that in itself makes it an excellent storage medium and >> with all querying left to tracker and sqlite you can get the best of >> both > > As couchdb only appends, would it be trivial to layer CouchDB on top of > a VCS such as Monotone to get historical data for free? I can't think > of any use-cases for this straight away but I'm sure someone can.
That's starting to sound a lot like Wizbit [1], right? I've kinda given up on that particular pipe of crack ;) .. at least for now.. Rob [1] http://www.wizbit.org/drupal/node/3 > Ross > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Rob Taylor, Codethink Ltd. - http://codethink.co.uk _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
