[lug] Embedded database recommendations

[Steve Webb]

couchdb is written in erlang (used to embedded phone switching 
equipment) and the interface is http requests and can 
query or search through all of your data.  It's very embedable and on a 
reboot event, the transactions are journalled, so reconstruction is very 
fast.  It's the 'flavor of the month' in the web industry and is getting 
ported to many platforms.  The spin-up for learning how to deal with the 
system may take you a short while to learn.  Can return results in JSON. 
Open source, can take advantage of multiple threads.  Self-replicates 
master/master if needed (no fancy configs required, just turn it on). 
very scalable.

- Steve Webb

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Steve Sullivan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for embedded database recommendations.
> The need is ...
>  - Storage of many objects, some small, some exceeding 10 GB each
>  - No SQL needed, but some sort of query language would be helpful
>  - Both Java and C/C++ APIs
>  - Open source (prefer MIT or LGPL to GPL license)
>  - Access by multiple processes or threads
>  - Robust: minimal loss during system crash; short recovery time
>
> The API issue is tricky.  If possible we'd like a DB
> with a pure Java implementation and a C++ implementation,
> since calling between Java and C++ involves JNI, which
> is often fragile.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>

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