Whoops, I'm too tired already - did not realize that EventVat is a JS
implementation (not a native addon), thus the V8 object limits apply,
so not really a go. But good to know about.


On Feb 22, 12:45 am, Juraj Vitko <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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-althoughIbelievewe 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.
>
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