Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-15 Thread Roché Compaan
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 00:31 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: Roché Compaan wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 14:23 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: I think proper construction of horizontally scalable databases must be done partly at application level, since a lot of the issues to be solved are

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
On 11/13/09 21:33 , Shane Hathaway wrote: I've been studying how to build an enormous database based on what I know. There are an incredible number of distributed databases these days, but all of them concern me in one way or another. Can you share some of those concerns with us? I'ld be

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-14 Thread Shane Hathaway
Roché Compaan wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 13:33 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: Stephan Richter wrote: http://svn.zope.org/z3c.sharding/trunk Great stuff! This approaches scaling a large data set at application level though. Don't you think a ZODB storage doing this for you would solve the

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-14 Thread Shane Hathaway
Wichert Akkerman wrote: On 11/13/09 21:33 , Shane Hathaway wrote: I've been studying how to build an enormous database based on what I know. There are an incredible number of distributed databases these days, but all of them concern me in one way or another. Can you share some of those

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-14 Thread Roché Compaan
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 14:23 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: Roché Compaan wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 13:33 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: Stephan Richter wrote: http://svn.zope.org/z3c.sharding/trunk Great stuff! This approaches scaling a large data set at application level though.

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-14 Thread Shane Hathaway
Roché Compaan wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 14:23 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: I think proper construction of horizontally scalable databases must be done partly at application level, since a lot of the issues to be solved are specific to the application. What are the issues you're talking

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-14 Thread Andreas Jung
Am 14.11.09 23:33, schrieb Shane Hathaway: I think that by very critical, the MongoDB authors are referring to applications that must not allow conflicting updates. Conflict resolution is probably my main concern with all of these new databases. I have no doubts about ZODB's

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-13 Thread Adam GROSZER
Hello, I think we can look at this at 2 levels. 1.: As your app uses ZODB. Then this is your app's problem/reponsibility. You use a nosql contender directly from your app and it's your responsibility to deal with it. 2.: On the ZODB Storage level. So far I can see that level needs

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-13 Thread Roché Compaan
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:58 +0100, Christian Theune wrote: On 11/13/2009 10:42 AM, Adam GROSZER wrote: Hello, I think we can look at this at 2 levels. 1.: As your app uses ZODB. Then this is your app's problem/reponsibility. You use a nosql contender directly from your app

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-13 Thread Stephan Richter
On Friday 13 November 2009, Roché Compaan wrote: We had such an opportunity about 2 years ago and although the client never reached (and probably will never) reach the membership they dreamed about, they did pay us to develop a storage for members that could scale to more than a 100 million

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-13 Thread Shane Hathaway
Stephan Richter wrote: On Friday 13 November 2009, Roché Compaan wrote: We had such an opportunity about 2 years ago and although the client never reached (and probably will never) reach the membership they dreamed about, they did pay us to develop a storage for members that could scale to

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Runyan
I am very intrigued now to setup an EC2 cluster and install a z3c.sharding based solution demonstrating 100M users with some data. Mmmh... That is the great thing about EC2. You can do massive experiments on the cheap. Actually one of our interns is doing some work on ZODB. He is doing

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-13 Thread Roché Compaan
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 13:33 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: Stephan Richter wrote: On Friday 13 November 2009, Roché Compaan wrote: We had such an opportunity about 2 years ago and although the client never reached (and probably will never) reach the membership they dreamed about, they did

[ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-12 Thread Encolpe Degoute
Hello, Is there someone in the ZODB development team following this: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2009/11/09/nosql-ecosystem/ Regards, -- Encolpe DEGOUTE http://encolpe.degoute.free.fr/ Logiciels libres, hockey sur glace et autres activités cérébrales

Re: [ZODB-Dev] [OT] NoSQL

2009-11-12 Thread Shane Hathaway
Encolpe Degoute wrote: Is there someone in the ZODB development team following this: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2009/11/09/nosql-ecosystem/ It is possible that ZODB unfortunately occupies the same space as SQL in the CAP triangle: http://camelcase.blogspot.com/2007/08/cap-theorem.html