Hello! I very much appreciate the threads on similar topics, and I apologize if this seems redundant.
Suppose I am using something like oscommerce.com for an online stock photography site. I have bugun modifying oscommerce for such a purpose at http://vvgallery.org . Does anyone have any feeling regarding whether it will scale to a hundred million images? It's not a Wall Street bank, so the typical transaction will be under a hundred dollars. We'll have somewhere between 10-100 million records describing basic digital rights of media files. Ideally the code would be optimized for transactions. Anyone interested in helping out? My hunch is that the shopping cart software at OSCOMMERCE.COM, running on a monster machine(s) and with some tweaking to handle transactions, could handle quite a lot of traffic. We have resources for a couple monster machines--either dual or quad xeons. The functionality of MYSQL 4.1 seems pretty adequate for our needs. We could perhaps be looking to compensate someone who would enjoy taking such a project on, or consulting about it. If you see any bugs at vvgallery, please let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to iron the bugs out before releasing the mods. Vincent Van Gallery facilitates stock photography shops and digital media libraries. Users can browse thumbnailed and watermarked images, fill a cart with selections, and pay to download high resolution originals in a zipped bundle. Based upon oscommerce (mostly) and gallery (more and more in coming months), vvgallery is written in php and mysql upon a LAMP platform. vvgallery uses GD and NetPBM to provide image manipulation, thumbnailing, and watermarking. RSS, RDF, and the Dublin Core are being integrated to manage basic digital rights associated with media. The Creative Commons licenses will be included as rights options. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any questions. We'll be rolling it out piece by piece, and your help at sourceforge would be very much appreciated! In future releases I'll be using the download attribute in oscommerce. I'd like to eventually make all the vvgallery mods "official contributions." I think a lot of this functionality could be integrated into oscommerce in the coming months. VVGALLERY FEATURES & GOALS # 0. Make VVGallery scalable to 100 million images. # 1. Support all types of media. (pdf, mp3, jpg, mov, wav, doc, etc.) # 2. Offer syndicated commerce for media collections via RSS/RDF. # 3. Offer customers the option of receiving media on a CD ROM. # 4. Allow satellite galleries to interact with VVGallery via RSS/RDF and REST, XML-RPC, or SOAP. # 5. Offer full integration of the Dublin Core and rights management. # 6. Integrate the Creative Commons licenses. # 7. Mass importing and exporting of entire media libraries, via RSS/RDF. # 8. Offer watermarking (visible & invisible) and manipulation with exif, GD library, and netPBM. # 9. Release VVGallery as modules for oscommerce, gallery, and then postnuke would follow. Thanks again for your time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
