On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:44:23 -0600, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Oct 11, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Eric <e...@deptj.eu> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:20:08 -0600, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: >>> On Oct 11, 2018, at 12:26 AM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote: >> 8>< -------- >> >>>> This makes me think that it would be useful, if it doesn't already, >>>> for Fossil to have something analogous to a database replication feature. >>> >>> That's pretty much what Fossil *is*: a replicated database. >
[following piece of snip restored] >> Database replication that could be applied to any SQLite database might >> be a very useful thing, but the Fossil synchronization algorithm is not >> much help for that, and that sort of database replication is not a lot >> of use for Fossil. > [snip] > >> This is nothing like database replication as generally understood, which >> is commonly done by applying redo (write-ahead) logs from the other side, >> but it is exactly what Fossil needs. > > I agree that what Fossil does is not the same thing as general-purpose > relational database replication, but it doesn't need to be > general-purpose. Fossil's synchronization mechanism is custom-tailored > to its specific purpose. This is what I was actually saying. > If you were hoping to use Fossil as a general-purpose SQLite replication > system, then yeah, it's not going to work for you. No, I wasn't, but others were, e.g. thread "How does fossil synchronize databases?" in the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup. > You might want to look at Bedrock: > > http://bedrockdb.com/ I will. >> The interlocking of artifacts by cryptographic hashes does seem very much >> like the same idea as blockchain > > Relevant: https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/blockchain.md > > I prefer the term Merkle tree, as it gets you away from all the hype > around cryptocurrencies, but drh prefers blockchain, so that's what > I use now when talking about Fossil. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree I agree with the idea of not using the term blockchain, but one of the reasons for using it is that everyone has heard of it :-( . Eric -- ms fnd in a lbry _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
