Sunday, April 27, 2008 6:00 PM
Evan Hoff has been digging into the BerkelyDB lately and this stuff is pretty interesting. He sent me some good links that I thought I would share.
Google Case Study:
http://www.oracle.com/customers/snapshots/google-oracle-berkeley-db-casestudy.pdf
Flash Overview:
http://oukc.oracle.com/static05/opn/oracle9i_database/34313/050306_34313/index.htm
I thinking that this could be a good data store for Mass Transit. No install for the client which is a huge win, and its fast as all get out. With the HA stuff, I can even mirror the DBs.
I also want to bring this up, because this is a non-relational database. Until Evan had showed me this I hadn't really thought about why I choose my database engines, which I tend to just treat as dead object storage. By exploring these options I can find better tools for me and my users to employ for the most benefit.
Now if I can just get my head around the Distributed Hashtables Greg and Chris keep telling me about.
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