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

[Stefan Andersson]

For what it's worth, I'd rather have us encourage exploring notions of
cloud-like and distributed services than to create a serve-all string
storage.

Pitched against monolithic database providers, I feel it's more in line with
the OpenSim distributed, modular and decoupled mantras.

/Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Dickson, Mike (ISS Software)
> Sent: den 22 september 2009 17:55
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Thoughts on adding a generic key-value
> storage system to OpenSim?
> 
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Melanie
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:42 AM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> 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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