Chris Anderson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Martin, >> >> Very cool ideas. We've been discussing erlang plugins. The >> conversation has generally gotten as far as, "erlang plugins... yeah >> we should have those." > > I agree this is cool, but I think it would be healthier for the > project to wait until we release a rock-solid 1.0. > > There are some incredibly non-obvious things happening inside, and a > big disruption right now wouldn't necessarily keep them all in > balance. Once we've met 1.0, we'll have a solid basis for comparison, > of any alternate implementations. > > Then, let the fun begin. :) > > Martin, I'd very much like to hear more about the sorts of indexers > you'd build. Sounds exciting. I'd like to experiment with Merkle trees, because these could turn out to be a good foundation for several use-cases: - index/tree-synchronization: replication is trivial with merkle trees, only changed parts of the tree get replicated in a secure manner. - secure document storage: modified documents (disc corruption, sw failure or even the "bad cracker"-case) - by using GPG/PGP-signatures probably even cryptographical secure design doc code signing, e.g. "safe applications"
Furthermore, there are a lot of other clever map data structures available (not in the sense of a->b , but a<->b) which could become quite handy to store document relationships. I'm sure, the database ppl out here have many more ideas about what could be added to CouchDB. Martin
