Haha, that's one of the reasons for this post - to discover more existing implementations. I wasn't aware of this one at all, thanks, I will add it to the nodejsdb.com page.
But in my own implementation I would probably be looking at a much smaller set of commands, e.g. why to have .decr() command when the API is synchronous and we can do map.put(key, --map.get(key)) (yeah .decr() is probably a tad faster but you get my point). Funny, I was just writing config & deployment for a Redis I was going to install on my aws site - now I don't have to do it as I can use EventVat (funny name btw:). On Feb 21, 11:09 pm, Joshua Holbrook <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you guys heard ofhttps://github.com/hij1nx/eventvat? It's > supposed to be pretty redis-like. > > --Josh > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Liam <[email protected]> wrote: > > For API, I'd suggest mirroring the Redis API for a first draft. Are > > there particular features you have in mind which it doesn't provide? > > > Also, before investing a ton of time, it'd be wise to explore just how > > much more performance can be obtained via shmem access to cached data > > vs domain sockets. > > > Assuming it's a lot, then I'd guess you'd want to query the Redis guys > > as to whether they've considered a shmem IPC scheme. > > > On Feb 21, 12:08 pm, Juraj Vitko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Redis is a standalone DB, accessed either by TCP/IP or Unix domain > >> sockets (I haven't seen a Node.js driver for the latter though). > > >> Quick google revealed (glad you asked, I did not know about > >> these):http://code.google.com/p/redis/issues/detail?id=276[Feature Request] > >> redis as embedded database > >> [Open]http://code.google.com/p/redis/issues/detail?id=231Featurerequest: > >> support for unix domain sockets [Fixed] > > >> I think it would not be entirely straightforward to use Redis as an > >> embedded DB, because it uses fork() to implement the snapshotting, but > >> that's just my guess. > > >> Anyway, I'm kind of trying to see what would people consider a good > >> base API. I assume this API would be much leaner than the one in Redis > >> (http://redis.io/commands), as in Node one would be able to manipulate > >> data and/or Buffers more directly, not needing e.g. BRPOPLPUSH and the > >> like. > > >> On Feb 21, 9:53 pm, Liam <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Any insight on how Redis deployments enable "intrinsic" access to > >> > cached data currently? Is there a shmem implementation of the API? > > >> > On Feb 21, 1:09 am, Juraj Vitko <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > >https://github.com/ypocat/nodejsdb(orhttp://nodejsdb.com) > > >> > > tl;dr - There are standalone database products (free or not), and > >> > > that's perfectly cool, but we already know how that works, so let's > >> > > try something different now. > > >> > > The general idea is to get Node.js and a data storage engine into a > >> > > tighter relationship, primarily to have more control of the data, but > >> > > also simpler stack, and even higher performance in accessing the data. > > >> > > I'm using the name "Intrinsic" because "In-process" is not exactly > >> > > accurate. E.g. there may be a shared-memory implementation shared by > >> > > multiple Nodes, or synchronized in-process implementation shared by > >> > > different Node Isolates (if these make it into Node), etc. > > >> > > I really like the base concept of Redis, because it provides simple, > >> > > reliable, predictable and fast primitive building blocks (in the form > >> > > of commands) which can support various app logic strategies, and it's > >> > > not hiding the complexities and overheads of storing and querying > >> > > data, that more complex DB's do. (So you are more likely to have more > >> > > stable production in the end, instead of fiascos with overflowing > >> > > shards etc.) > > >> > > This is also a vague follow-up to this discussion (in this > >> > > group)http://goo.gl/mDWqR-althoughIbelieve we should not insist only on > >> > > in-memory implementations at this time. > > >> > > As for the basic set of basic data structures and operations, that I > >> > > believe would support the above, I think we need: > > >> > > 1) fast unordered Hash Map (key, value) > >> > > (candidate:http://code.google.com/p/sparsehash/) > > >> > > 2) Ordered Map (with minimal empty 'value' overhead to allow for > >> > > Ordered Set implementation if someone wants it) > >> > > (candidate:http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/talks/LLRB/08Penn.pdf) > > >> > > 3) a list that can be used for FIFO, LIFO, stack, etc. - probably > >> > > something close STL's Deque. (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/ > >> > > deque/) > > >> > > I think the API for the above should be as simple as possible, so that > >> > > we can have multiple implementations and various optimizations later, > >> > > while keeping the amount of needed work down. Also, terse API is > >> > > simple to use. > > >> > > From Node, we could do something like: > > >> > > require('a-nodejsdb-impl').open('/path/db', function(err, db) { > >> > > var users = db.map('users'); > >> > > var users_ordered_by_email = db.smap('users_by_email'); > >> > > users.on('put', function(k, v) { > >> > > users_ordered_by_email.put(v.email, k); > >> > > }); > >> > > users.put(1234, { fname: 'john', lname: 'smith', email: '[email protected]' }); > > >> > > } > > >> > > ..which implements a basic User table with primary key on ID and > >> > > ordered index on Email. (The difference being that it gives you 200k > >> > > operations per second and you don't need a separate DB server.) > > >> > > So if you guys have any constructive input regarding this, please post > >> > > it here. > > > -- > > Job Board:http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting > > guidelines:https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" 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/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Joshua Holbrook > Engineer > Nodejitsu Inc. > [email protected] -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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