Is the front end in JHS or GTK? On Nov 2, 2012 2:04 PM, "Eric Iverson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My work with Vstar ended at the beginning of this year as we > (Vectornova and Jsoftware) decided we could better pursue separate > paths. > > My interest in a database based on J has only increased. In > partnership with a few clients we are working on a major upgrade of > JDB to a commercial product. This was the topic of my talk at the J > conference in Toronto in July. > > The working name of the new product is JD (J Database). In a few > words: it is a high-performance, columnar database that shares some > characteristics with Vstar and KDB, but is firmly placed in a J > levaraged development environment. It is moving into production at one > client, and will be in the hands of a few early adopters over the next > month or so. > > Jsoftware is actively looking for partners who can help fund and drive > JD development. > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:28 AM, June Kim (김창준) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > Yesterday, I just happened to have found a link to a wonderful resource : > > the video recordings of Dyalog '11 conference. > > http://video.dyalog.com/Dyalog11/ > > > > There are two videos of particular interests to J programmers, I think. > > > > One is John Scholes and Roger's What is Functional Programming? > > > http://video.dyalog.com/Dyalog11/JohnScholesRogerHui_FunctionalProgramming.html > > > > I really like John's approach to declarative programming and it has been > a > > great inspiration helping me explore less traveled roads in programming > and > > design. Roger and John, collaboratively, shows what functional > programming > > is, not the plain function programming as espoused by Haskell > programmers. > > > > The other is a great amazement. This is Eric Iverson's presentation on > > Vstar. http://video.dyalog.com/Dyalog11/EricIverson_Vstar.html > > > > Vstar is a columnar database with a wonderful performance and > scalability. > > Please look at the benchmark results in the video. It shows 100x to 1000x > > improvement usually, compared to its competitors and traditional RDBMSes. > > What is really surprising is Vstar is entirely written in J. That is > > something I didn't expect. I am really happy that there is something like > > Vstar from the J world. > > > > So, if there is anyone here(Eric definitely!) tell me more about the > > structure of Vstar, and how it is developed in J, and lessons learned, it > > would substantially benefit J programming community. > > > > June > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
