On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Monty Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Monty Taylor wrote: > > Padraig O'Sullivan wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I'm taking a database class this semester which involves a semester > >> project. The project is supposed to be a mini-research project as it is > >> a research-orientated class. For example, a list of sample project > >> topics are listed here: > >> > >> http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2009/cmsc724/project-suggestions.html > >> > >> Now, there are a few topics on the list that interest me but I wanted to > >> ping the list to see if anyone here had any suggestions for a project > >> that I could work on that was related to Drizzle. We are free to propose > >> our projects so its not a problem doing something which is not related > >> to the suggested topics. > > > > Well, the MJoin, Queries over graph databases, and Multi-query > > optimization using eddies and STAIRs all look interesting to me in the > > context of Drizzle. > Yeah, the multi-way join queries project is probably the most attractive to me at the moment as I think it would be reasonable to complete that project within a semester. It would involve an implementation and experimental evaluation which is what I'm looking for really in a project as I don't want to do a purely theoretical project. > > > Additionally, I keep prattling on about moving query parsing initially > > and later perhaps even some query optimization into a plugin interface > > Then, if we can allow clients to do those tasks and transmit the > > serialized results to the server, we could have a win in our cloud-based > > world. > This is interesting. Even if it turned out to be a bad idea, it would be interesting to explore it and provide some insights into why it does or does not work well based on some quantitative results. Hopefully, I'll be chatting with my professor next week and I'll see what he thinks. > > > (note, not everyone agrees with me that this is worthwhile. Jim Starkey > > did this or a form of it some time ago and says it turned out to be a > > bad idea. But I think the world may have changed enough since then to > > warrant another stab. I could be wrong though. :) ) > > > > If you haven't already - browse through the blueprints too. > > Quick thought - you might want to make sure that UMD doesn't claim > ownership of stuff you do as part of research projects and that you are, > in fact, allowed to submit it. We don't require copyright assignment or > anything. I, for one, think the idea of a uni owning work done by > students is quite disgusting - but I'm also not a university lawyer. > > On the other hand, your professor did mention doing something as a > Postgres impl... so perhaps it's fine. > Good point; I don't think it will be an issue but I'll make sure to find out. > > >> I thought it would be cool if I could work on something which the > >> Drizzle developers would like to investigate or implement but don't have > >> the time to. I still hope to contribute anyway even if I can't tie my > >> semester project in with Drizzle. > >> > >> -Padraig > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: > >> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : > >> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: > > https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : > > https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > >
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