[Opensim-dev] Object Representation

[Stefan Andersson]

Yeah, I'd definitivelyrecommend us getting our shit together on a simple honest-to-god rdbms solution before we start on anything else. Like, learn to walk before you run.
 
Best,
/Stefan



> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:36:14 -0500> From: sean at dague.net> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Object Representation> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Stefan Andersson wrote:> > I'm a bit worried that nhibernate or another generic mapper solution> > will prove too coarse grained for a specialized and optimized storage> > strategy.> > > > For example, is it possible to specify that you want to store just a> > number of fields, not all fields and not cascading updates?> > > > Please alleviate fear?> > Yes, that's all possible with nhibernate. Basically you create an xml> definition which says "this field is that column". You don't need to> map all fields, and you have a lot of control over the update paths.> > All my research on nhibernate showed it was the right way forward, I> just never quite got over the hump to get it pulled together. Impalah's> done some great work in that regard.> > Right now we're a bit constrained on supporting a bunch of new> persistent bits that are unrelated to the prims themselves, because> getting data persisted across all our backends requires a lot of work.> ++ on getting nhibernate in there to help with that.> > There are a lot of other clever things one might do with prims instead> of RDBMS back end, but I think we're a bit premature to start heading> down that road at this point.> > -Sean> > -- > __________________________________________________________________> > Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley> sean at dague dot net Linux Users Group> http://dague.net http://mhvlug.org> > There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors> than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.> __________________________________________________________________
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