Every time I see an article on Project Voldemort, I'm surprised that J.K. Rowling hasn't filed a copyright claim on the name.
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Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database
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Re: Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database
#12"Database" isn't entirely correct, its a distributed K/V store. Maybe its just me, but the word database implies a lot of additional functionality that Voldemort doesn't have.
Perhaps you are thinking of a "Relational Database"?
Maybe he was thinking of querying by values? My (admittedly cursory) examination of this suggests I must know the key and only the key to get a value. To me a database is searchable.
Re: Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database
#13Make sure the reserved words for queries are from Harry Potter as well.
ex: "WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA `users` WHERE userID = 9.75"
Re: Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database
#14Every time I see an article on Project Voldemort, I'm surprised that J.K. Rowling hasn't filed a copyright claim on the name.
Why though? This has nothing to do with Harry Potter. (Also I don't think copyright would be appropriate here, maybe trade marks? She doesn't have one.)
Maybe because it protects data with replication and sharding?
But hopefully doesn't provide copies of your data to your enemies by accident.
Re: Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database
#15Every time I see an article on Project Voldemort, I'm surprised that J.K. Rowling hasn't filed a copyright claim on the name.
Why though? This has nothing to do with Harry Potter. (Also I don't think copyright would be appropriate here, maybe trade marks? She doesn't have one.)
Yes, she (and the publisher) most certainly have trademarks as well as copyrights in the characters. "Famous" trademarks are especially fraught with peril.