On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]> wrote:
> If Leo supported lazy loading of nodes, db would allow huge docs w/ small
> ram footprint & load times.
>
> As for networked access, db seems like wrong way to do it (dB's don't work
> well over internet)


Curious how else you'd do it.  Interface with documents on a web site?
 Build it on a P2P sort of platform layer (that might be built on a db
or documents at the nodes, in fact)?  The interesting thing to me
would be massively scalable and distributed Leo on a NoSQL backend.


Seth


> On Mar 31, 2013 6:28 AM, "Terry Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:56:55 -0700 (PDT)
>> "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > So let's refocus on the future of Leo.  What problems with Leo (or .leo
>> > files) would DB's be likely to solve?  This would be a good topic to
>> > discuss at the sprint.  Your comments, please.
>>
>> That was why I said you'd have to stop thinking about Leo if you wanted
>> to learn about the functionality of DBs, which is no compulsory :-)
>>
>> Leo's data storage needs are very simple, a list of nodes, a list of
>> edges.  DBs are one very easy way to get networked storage, and they
>> also offer opportunities for versioning.  git is another networked out
>> of the box data store that might work.  I think DB's relevance to Leo
>> are networking and versioning, not table relating and querying.
>>
>> I don't think this line of thought is about fixing Leo - it's ability
>> to load and save data locally's fine, apart from multi-outline save
>> speed, and that's not a huge issue.  So this is about new capabilities,
>> networked, possibly collaborative data, etc.
>>
>> If we want things to fix, we can look at the list SegundoBob's
>> generating :-}
>>
>> Cheers -Terry
>>
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