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UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

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Re: UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

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Post by krschultz »

RyanZAG wrote: post #3

This would be a great replacement for the fairly awful sqlite on android - accomplishes much the same goal, but should fit into Android a lot better. Someone should write a android/java wrapper for it in the same way Google has a built in wrapper for sqlite.

Actually it seems like a replacement for the PreferenceManager - that's the Key/Value store. Lots of people are using SQLite effectively as a regular SQL DB in their app, it's not going anywhere.

Re: UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

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Post by willvarfar »

This turned up recently on proggit too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1etfxi/sqlite_n... was heavily downvoted for saying its an order of magnitude faster than SQLite

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1etkix/unqlite_... raises concerns about the license, and there's a Global Lock in there too? The scripting performance gives cause for pause too.

Re: UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

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Post by willvarfar »

RyanZAG wrote: post #3

This would be a great replacement for the fairly awful sqlite on android - accomplishes much the same goal, but should fit into Android a lot better. Someone should write a android/java wrapper for it in the same way Google has a built in wrapper for sqlite.

In what way is SQLite awful on Android? I'm just curious what your experience has been.

Re: UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

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Post by angersock »

A very uncharitable reading of the features seems to suggest that this is some strange bastard child of a hashmap, a scripting language interpreter, and a JSON serializer.

I'm sure it's much more than that, but one wonders where this stacks up compared to existing solutions.

Re: UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

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Post by cpleppert »

willvarfar wrote: post #5

This turned up recently on proggit too. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1etfxi/sqlite_n... was heavily downvoted for saying its an order of magnitude faster than SQLite http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1etkix/unqlite_... raises concerns about the license, and there's a Global Lock in there too? The scripting performance gives cause for pause too.

"It furthermore states that commercial licence must be acquired for closed source applications."

I love the description of the scripting language as "Turing complete" based on "JSON". That is the first time I have ever heard turing complete used to market a programming language!

The scripting language is incredible, I have never seen a more verbose way to program. It is a scripting language, yet seems to combine JSON, PHP and C standard library functions with C type casting. Look at the samples: http://unqlite.org/jx9_samples.html

I am speechless, the description of the project is the most vacuous collection of buzzwords imaginable. "Built with a powerful disk storage engine which support O(1) lookup." "Support Terabyte sized databases." Of course with a global lock and after taking a look at the scripting language I have reason to doubt the claims made

Re: UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

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Post by willvarfar »

cpleppert wrote: post #8
willvarfar wrote: post #5

This turned up recently on proggit too. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1etfxi/sqlite_n... was heavily downvoted for saying its an order of magnitude faster than SQLite http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1etkix/unqlite_... raises concerns about the license, and there's a Global Lock in there too? The scripting performance gives cause for pause too.

"It furthermore states that commercial licence must be acquired for closed source applications." I love the description of the scripting language as "Turing complete" based on "JSON". That is the first time I have ever heard turing complete used to market a programming language! The scripting language is incredible, I have never seen a more verbose way to program. It is a scripting language, yet seems to combine JSON…

(For a language being compared to SQL, saying its Turing Complete may be applicable.

Or maybe not: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7580013/15721 ;) )

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