Phil Leigh;149949 Wrote: > Nice post Cliveb - I agree with pretty much everything apart from the > fact that there are ALWAYS people mad enough to write their own DBMS - > again. :0) Actually, I just got a PM from Rob Darling of Sooloos, and one of the things he said in it was: > We do have our own dbms. We use metadata in ways that are unique and > allow us to scale in a way that nothing else can. Not quite sure what he means by "scale in a way that nothing else can". This must be news to industry strength DBMS vendors like Oracle, Sybase, etc, which routinely support databases with hundreds of terabytes. Mind you, that needs more than $12k of hardware :-)
Phil Leigh;149949 Wrote: > ...also whilst HTTP is too sluggish, you wouldn't want the client to get > too fat - but you would want a fair bit of intelligent client-side in > memory caching (ooo this is fun) The client can still run on the server hardware - the critical issue here is that the client keeps a connection open to the server, does some clever caching, and avoids using something like HTML/XML/whatever as the data transfer language (which requires parsing by a fairly complex process just to display it sensibly). The remote control device is just the human interface - think of it as like a special purpose wireless keyboard/monitor. But any remote that's usable while you slob on the sofa (ie. like a TV remote) would be too small to provide anything like the rich info that's displayed on the Sooloos control panel. I guess this has to be a preference thing. I personally wouldn't want a great big video display - but then I don't bother with album art, and I can see how it might appeal to those who do. Incidentally, Rob's PM also mentioned that their control panel component has a gigabyte of RAM for caching (no surprises there). What would be interesting is to find out how quickly the system is ready to rock after a cold start up. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28499 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
