Re: [HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-30 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Oct 28, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: I'd actually be curious what incremental changes you could see making to PostgreSQL for better in-memory operation. Ideas? It would be difficult to make PostgreSQL really competitive for in- memory operation, primarily because a contrary ass

Re: [HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-28 Thread Josh Berkus
J., I'd actually be curious what incremental changes you could see making to PostgreSQL for better in-memory operation. Ideas? -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-27 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: * J. Andrew Rogers: Everything you are looking for is here: http://web.mit.edu/dna/www/vldb07hstore.pdf It is the latest Stonebraker et al on massively distributed in-memory OLTP architectures. "Ruby-on-Rails compiles into standard JDBC, b

Re: [HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* J. Andrew Rogers: > Everything you are looking for is here: > > http://web.mit.edu/dna/www/vldb07hstore.pdf > > It is the latest Stonebraker et al on massively distributed in-memory > OLTP architectures. "Ruby-on-Rails compiles into standard JDBC, but hides all the complexity of that interface.

Re: [HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-25 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Oct 25, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Dan wrote: In looking at current developments in computers, it seems we're nearing a point where a fundamental change may be possible in databases... Namely in-memory databases which could lead to huge performance improvements. ... The sites that use it see incredi

Re: [HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:05:24AM -0700, Dan wrote: > In looking at current developments in computers, it seems we're nearing > a point where a fundamental change may be possible in databases... > Namely in-memory databases which could lead to huge performance > improvements. I think there are a

Re: [HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-25 Thread Jonah H. Harris
I'd suggest looking at the source code to several of the in-memory databases which already exist. On 10/25/07, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > In looking at current developments in computers, it seems we're nearing > a point where a fundamental change may be possible in databases... > Name

[HACKERS] Opportunity for a Radical Changes in Database Software

2007-10-25 Thread Dan
Hi In looking at current developments in computers, it seems we're nearing a point where a fundamental change may be possible in databases... Namely in-memory databases which could lead to huge performance improvements. A good starting point is to look at memcached, since it provides proof that i