Hello, I would like to create an ORM adapter for Tokyo Cabinet using DataMapper (possibly). The reason I want to do this is because Tokyo Cabinet is super fast (it can do like a million database writes in half a second).
Here is some info about DBM-like databases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbm Here is the tokyo cabinet page: http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/index.html DBM database are interesting because they are basically hash tables: a list of key-value pairs. I think that's why they are super fast. Everything is O(1). Basically, I am thinking that each (table, column) pair could map to a separate file. For example, let's say we had users and projects. 1 user can have many projects. Users can have a first name and last name, and projects can only have a name. User( id, first_name, last_name ) Project( id, name, user_id ) I am thinking that we can auto-generate the following Tokyo Cabinet files (below is some sample data): user-first_name.fdb 00000001 David 00000002 Ralph user-last_name.fdb 00000001 Beckwith 00000002 Nader project-name.fdb 00000001 Making an ORM 00000002 Lifting weights 00000003 Learning Merb 00000004 Saving the world project-user_id.fdb 000000001 00000001 000000002 00000001 000000003 00000001 000000004 00000002 Anyway, I'm looking for somebody who would like to work on this with me. My main concern is that I want to do graph traversal operations fast, and I think it could be achieved this way. I have a program that needs to do about a thousand read and writes per basic operation, and sqlite3 is not cutting it. I don't know how much faster MySQL would be -- even if it was 10 times faster, that wouldn't be fast enough. I need something like 100 times or 1000 times faster. I don't know of any OODBs available with a good Ruby interface and a good open free license. If you know the answers to any of these questions, please let me know. Again, let me know if you want to work on this with me. I envision this to be a DataMapper database adapter. We can do it as an open source project and become famous afterwards. lol. Email me at d b i t s o l u t i o n s @ g m a i l . c o m David :) P.S. I've never used Merb, or DataMapper. I'm coming from Rails and Ruby. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
