Re: DASL and pluggable-db

Hey Elias... small world :-)

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:17:36AM -0700, Elias Sinderson wrote:
>...
> Glen Thompson mentions the issue of providing a pluggable DB layer
> before addressing DASL-like functionality. I'm curious as to the reason
> Glen feels this way - is there a compelling architectural reason for
> this?

I think the simplest answer is that Berkeley DB is not very good at
responding to the kinds of queries that DASL can/would generate. In fact,
with BDB, you pretty much have to have defined ahead-of-time the kind of
queries you need to make, and then you design the database(s) around that.

Thus, moving to a SQL database with its greater query flexibility is pretty
much a first step before you can consider DASL types of functionality.

[ note that I'm mostly talking about property-based queries here; I imagine
  a text/content-based query would be about the same on any backend database
  since those queries are usually handled by complicated indexing systems
  rather than the core database ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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