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Irmin: Git-like distributed DB

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Re: Irmin: Git-like distributed DB

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Post by amirmc »

There was some discussion about Irmin just over a year ago [1] and it's been steadily improving ever since. The Readme on the repo [2] lists the bleeding-edge users too, so you can see examples of how it's been applied -- (note to self: we should probably write an update about the progress to date).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8053687

[2] https://github.com/mirage/irmin/blob/master/README.md#use-ca...

Re: Irmin: Git-like distributed DB

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Post by marknadal »

From your description I'm not quite sure where in the stack Irmin belongs? Is this to be used by web application developers? I assume note, as this looks like it is targeting more OS level development work?

Pretty cool stuff. I am also working on a distributed database, https://github.com/amark/gun , that operates at the high level (web/javascript) rather than the low level. Although it looks like Irmin can be used in the browser? https://github.com/talex5/irmin-js ? Would love to hear some clarification.

Re: Irmin: Git-like distributed DB

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Post by amirmc »

marknadal wrote: post #5

From your description I'm not quite sure where in the stack Irmin belongs? Is this to be used by web application developers? I assume note, as this looks like it is targeting more OS level development work? Pretty cool stuff. I am also working on a distributed database, https://github.com/amark/gun , that operates at the high level (web/javascript) rather than the low level. Although it looks like Irmin can be used i…

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I don't really understand the question about the stack. Where it belongs should only limited by its features.

It certainly can be used by people developing browser-based apps. For example, Cuekeeper [1] is a version-controlled TODO manager which uses Irmin. It's also been used with Xenstore [2], which is a different use-case (there are other examples in the readme of the Irmin repo).

[1] https://github.com/talex5/cuekeeper

[2] https://github.com/djs55/ocaml-xenstore/tree/irminsule

Re: Irmin: Git-like distributed DB

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Post by bratsche »

The Github repo[1] says "This repository is currently offline". I've never seen this message on github before, I'm not really sure what it means. Github then refers me to the "working when Github goes down" article, but Github hasn't really gone down.. I can access every other repo I try to access. Just not this one.

[1] https://github.com/mirage/irmin

Re: Irmin: Git-like distributed DB

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Post by rcy »

bratsche wrote: post #7

The Github repo[1] says "This repository is currently offline". I've never seen this message on github before, I'm not really sure what it means. Github then refers me to the "working when Github goes down" article, but Github hasn't really gone down .. I can access every other repo I try to access. Just not this one. [1] https://github.com/mirage/irmin

https://status.github.com/

20:34 MST We are continuing to investigate a fileserver outage. Some repositories may be temporarily unavailable.

Re: Irmin: Git-like distributed DB

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Post by mwilcox »

bratsche wrote: post #7

The Github repo[1] says "This repository is currently offline". I've never seen this message on github before, I'm not really sure what it means. Github then refers me to the "working when Github goes down" article, but Github hasn't really gone down .. I can access every other repo I try to access. Just not this one. [1] https://github.com/mirage/irmin

Github is having issues at the moment https://status.github.com/
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