Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-07 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:50:21PM -0400, John Sequeira wrote: Would xotcl's xoStore help you out? It's more ORM than OODBMS, but I'd never heard of it, thanks, I'll take a look. Also, I'm curious ... what type of data would you want to store that wouldn't fit in an array? In my

Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-07 Thread Zoran Vasiljevic
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 13:48, you wrote: In my particular (peculiar?) experience, I wrote a multi-threaded application for fetching remote data via a pretty low-level, rather ugly, proprietary C API. (I used AOLserver for its excellent mult-threaded C and Tcl programming environment; if

Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-07 Thread Jim Wilcoxson
I think Solid has versions of their database server that: - can be loaded directly with the application; no separate process - are thread-safe - have support for in-memory tables http://www.solidtech.com Good luck! Jim I don't intend to go back and change that particular application now, and

Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-07 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:08:23PM +0200, Zoran Vasiljevic wrote: Just a thought... Have you checked out the excellent MetaKit from Jean-Claude Wippler? It is quite powerful and popular Just like SQLlite, MetaKit does not allow concurrent writers in any form. Therefore, it is not directly

Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-07 Thread Gustaf Neumann
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 13:48, Andrew Piskorski wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:50:21PM -0400, John Sequeira wrote: Would xotcl's xoStore help you out? It's more ORM than OODBMS, but I'd never heard of it, thanks, I'll take a look. xoStore is a persistence layer for xotcl objects

Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-07 Thread derek keller
What about mysql's heap tables? http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3077531 I don't know if that would do what you want, but if so would eliminate needing another layer of software. I'm also not sure if postgresql has something similar. Again like SQLlite, MetaKit might

Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-06 Thread Jeff Hobbs
AOLserver's nsv API is great, but I've occasionally found the plain old key/value pairs of an associative arrays limiting, and really wished I had an in-memory relational database available. So I'm wondering if Mnesia would fit that bill.. I know nothing about Mnesia, but for in-memory dbs

Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-06 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:00:41AM -0700, Jeff Hobbs wrote: I know nothing about Mnesia, but for in-memory dbs you might want to consider sqlite (http://www.sqlite.org/). It is threadsafe, when Last I checked, Sqllite does not support concurrency. (It allows at best one exclusive writer,

Re: [AOLSERVER] [Tcl-Threads] Erlang's mnesia database?

2003-10-06 Thread John Sequeira
snip nsv, on the other hand, nicely supports concurrent access from multiple theads (and the Tcl threads extensions even more so). I want something clearly more powerful than nsv, not something which better in some ways but dramatically worse in at least one major, important way Would xotcl's