Hi All, My first post in this group. I'd like to ask something that's not technical but about the H2 project in general.
First I should tell about why I am posting here. I am currently using H2 in a prototype of an application that does what is often called "fuzzy matching". Conceptually fuzzy matching can be seen as that one makes a Cartesian product of two relations and computes for every record pair similarity scores using some metric(s) (like edit- distance, soundex, cosine similarity, ...). The similarity scores are used to determine in a (semi) automated fashion whether or not a record pair matches (represents the same real-world entity). Fuzzy matching can for example occur as part of a data integration task. Technically it means for my application that that are a lot of sequential scans/inserts/sortings/aggregations on large data sets, sometimes with low latency requirements as to provide an interactive user interface. The main reasons for me to go for H2 is performance in combination with platform independence. On topic: I have noticed that one can make binary taxonomy of open source projects as follows: the first type is where the project seems to be a team effort; the second type that seem to be heavily centered around one individual. I also noticed while looking at the H2 repository that practically all commits are done by Thomas Mueller. This fact made me wonder how much this project is depending on one person. I'd like to hear the opinions of this group. I searched the H2 website for something about how the project is organized; I couldn't find more than a piece on the history of H2. I'd like to know how the H2 project is organized. How many people are involved? and in what way? Kind regards, Vasco -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "H2 Database" 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/h2-database?hl=en.
