Mark Waser wrote:
I am pretty confident that the specialized indices we use
(implemented directly in C++) are significantly faster than
implementing comparable indices in an enterprise DB would be.
Wow. You've floored me given that indexes are key to what enterprise
DBs do well. What are the special requirements/functionalities of the
indices that you believe that enterprise DBs are not *optimized* to
handle?
Look at the literature regarding "graph databases" for some general
background in this area... e.g. here is a random presentation on graph
DB's...
www.ciw.cl/material/irw-2005/2005-irw-gutierrez.pdf
Novamente's internal AtomTable is a customized, in-RAM hypergraph DB,
with much relationship to prior graph DB's..
Another example, beyond standard graph DB stuff, is efficient lookup of
spatiotemporal entities based on which space, time or spacetime points
they are near to ...
-- Ben
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>> Also, why would 32 -> 64 bit be a problem, provided you planned for
it in advance?
Name all the large, long-term projects that you know of that
*haven't* gotten bitten by something like this. Now, name all of
the large, long-term projects that you know of that HAVE gotten
bitten repeatedly by the state of the art moving past something that
they have custom programmed and can't easily integrate. If the
second number isn't a lot larger than the first, you're not living
in my world. :-)
I think you're exaggerating the issue. Porting the NM code from
32->64 bit was a pain but not a huge deal, certainly a trivial % of
the total work done on the project.
I do not think an enterprise DB would serve well for Novamente. I
am pretty confident that the specialized indices we use (implemented
directly in C++) are significantly faster than implementing
comparable indices in an enterprise DB would be.
However, the advantage of an enterprise DB would be that you'd avoid
some of the work involved in making NM a distributed system --- work
we know how to do, but haven't done yet, because it's time-consuming...
-- Ben
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