Sounds like Backplane [1] by Matt Dillon [2]. I don't know what happened to it either it was bought or it is under legal constraints. Some of Backplane features have been incorporated into DragonFly BSD' design e.g. the filesystem [3]
[1] <http://www.backplane.com/faq.html> [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Dillon_(computer_scientist)> [3] <http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2007-01/msg00171.html> Ed <http://blog.eonsec.com/> On Feb 9, 2008 9:24 AM, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://hypertable.org/about.html > .... > Modeled after Google's well known Bigtable project, Hypertable is > designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a > large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience to machine > and component failures. Hypertable seeks to set the open source > standard for highly available, petabyte scale, database systems. > ... > > > > http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/020608-hypertable.html > .... > Brian Aker, director of architecture for open source database supplier > MySQL AB, says that he can see a development path that would bridge > the gap from the Hypertable API to a full SQL database. In an email > interview, he wrote, "Someone could turn this into a backend for MySQL > without a lot of effort. You would gain an SQL interface by doing > this." For Hypertable as is, Aker says he can see several > applications. Besides log data, Hypertable could be useful for image > and object servers, and for pre-rendering responses to > Representational State Transfer (REST) queries produced by web > applications. > .... > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

