On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:48:14 +0900, Christian Manning
<cmanning...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm a second year student at De Montfort University studying Computer
Science. I am very much interested in working on the database API idea
that is proposed at
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas#DatabaseAPI (I was
also quite interested in the containers idea, but it looks like someone
else wants to do that)
I have limited experience with database libraries but have begun to
study the JDBC API (in my small amount of spare time only as term
doesn't finish for another 2 weeks for me and I still have assignments).
Has this idea/project been assigned a mentor? I'd like to ask them and
the list, what's the best thing for me to do right now to prepare for
this?
Currently, many databases exist.
* SQL based: MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQLite, etc..
* KVS: Cassandra, HBase, Kumofs, Redis, etc...
* Document Oriented: MongoDB, CouchDB, etc...
I think next Database API should support these types.
AFAIK, DDBI supports only SQL based interface.
In Ruby, Rails 3 has Arel.
Arel seems to be a good query abstraction.
https://github.com/rails/arel
Arel's concept may help you :)
Masahiro
