Re: Making searches inside a message file

2009-06-22 Thread Kenton Varda
Sorry, Protocol Buffers do not provide support for searching or indexing. All protobuf does is parse and serialize data structures. Drizzle is actually building database functionality *on top* of protocol buffers -- they implement their own searching and indexing, using protocol buffers to implem

Re: Making searches inside a message file

2009-06-22 Thread Srinivas G
Hi Green, AFAICT, protocol buffers does not have inbuilt support for searching and querying, at least not in the public domain release. However, you should be able to use protocol buffers in your particular scenario. Since your data is more or less read-only once it's serialized, you should be ab

Making searches inside a message file

2009-06-19 Thread green
I am interested in using protocol buffers for the following scenario: I have a large number of small data points I need to serialize to a file. Once this serialization process is complete, the data will be strictly read only, accessed by multiple threads, until I need to create a new version of t