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Looks pretty cool, a data structure server.Tokyo cabnet is pretty similar. We need more of this and less xml/html/other bullshit. Screw the web, I want large numbers of servers with huge amounts of raw data that I can query.
Actually, I don’t mind the whole idea of XML or JSON style databases.. being able to structure and query data in different ways is often pretty useful.
The main problem I have is that there aren’t any good (free) implementations that I’m aware of. Tokyo Cabinet looks pretty cool, I really need to get off my ass and dedicate some time to building something with it. ;-)
XML/JSON are not formats for storing, manipulating or querying data, they are formats designed specifically for transporting data between hosts. They are streaming sequencial access formats, you read them top to bottom in order with no ability for random access.
XML/JSON is useful as a format for small amounts of data returned from a query, but I prefer something more along the lines of Google’s Protocal Buffers or Facebook’s Thrift for this purpose. Either way, more querable databases less data wrapped up in html and web applications.
