Yes Göran, I understand your point.
-- Best regards, Dennis Schetinin 2013/4/23 Göran Krampe <[email protected]> > On 04/22/2013 07:24 PM, Dennis Schetinin wrote: > >> Sorry for such a late answer, I was away for some time and >> have just managed to break through the piles of e-mails. :) >> >> If I'm not mistaken, Oak is based on Riak, i.e. external storage engine. >> Actually, I was talking about Smalltalk-based solution. Why do you >> prefer an “externally supported backend”? >> > > Yes, it uses Riak - although it "can" use other k/v stores, but we decided > to focus on Riak for the moment to keep things simpler and to be able to > use features of Riak in a more direct way. > > Personally I would love to also make it work for HyperDex but that little > project is on my back burner right now. > > I actually prefer to have a popular, hardened and widely used industrial > strength engine at the bottom. Our community is so small that building and > maintaining the same level of confidence in a Smalltalk only system is very > hard. And also, don't forget performance. > > regards, Göran > >
