[Opensim-dev] Thoughts on adding a generic key-value storage system to OpenSim?

[Dickson, Mike (ISS Software)]

And OpenSim is?

I actually really like the notion of a REST like interface for semi-structured attribute/value storage for modules.  Similar to the cloud centric storage services. Maybe you configure a URL for the REST storage svc to use and a module that needs it can look it up and use it. One implementation could certainly be in the local database but an external svc (either a separate shared "internal" svc or a real external cloud storage svc depending on needs). 

Anyway, I'd hate to see restricting options for this based on perceived stability of a solution.  OpenSim itself is "alpha" as has been pointed out.  Melanie, you seem to have a preconceived design in mind, maybe you could share some details.

Mike

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Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Thoughts on adding a generic key-value storage system to OpenSim?

CouchDB is generally not considered stable at this time.

Melanie

Daniel Smith wrote:
> You mentioned JSON -- Anyone looking at CouchDB?
> http://couchdb.apache.org/
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Frisby, Adam <adam at deepthink.com.au>wrote:
> 
>> I think something that has emerged a lot in the last year is the
>> scalability properties of key-value stores. You can get them up to gigantic
>> sized databases fairly efficiently; definitely more so than a conventional
>> DB. It would however be nice if we could get some kind of struct format for
>> serialising/deserialising data and knowing how to decode it implicitly.
>> (XML, JSON?)
>>
>> Adam
>>
> 
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