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Toshiba has open-sourced GridDB, a Scalable In-Memory KVS

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Re: Toshiba has open-sourced GridDB, a Scalable In-Memory KVS

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Post by ddorian43 »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #10
rubiquity wrote: post #5

Is there any piece of software that suffers more from Not Invented Here syndrome than Key-Value stores?

You could say that about programming languages, but they are so useful there end up being a lot of variants. I searched for a shared memory key value store high and low for interprocess communication and the closest thing I found was WhiteDB. WhiteDB is pretty great, but its concurrency is done through locking and it is very unfortunately GPL licensed, which makes it very niche. (BTW a shared memory key value store f…

Why don't you use lmdb ?

Re: Toshiba has open-sourced GridDB, a Scalable In-Memory KVS

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Post by CyberDildonics »

ddorian43 wrote: post #11
CyberDildonics wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could say that about programming languages, but they are so useful there end up being a lot of variants. I searched for a shared memory key value store high and low for interprocess communication and the closest thing I found was WhiteDB. WhiteDB is pretty great, but its concurrency is done through locking and it is very unfortunately GPL licensed, which makes it very niche. (BTW a shared memory key value store f…

Why don't you use lmdb ?

That was the first one I tried actually. It was a complete nightmare to get to work on windows and its performance on windows was dismal, as in hundreds of writes per second instead of millions. It was a colossal waste of time.

Re: Toshiba has open-sourced GridDB, a Scalable In-Memory KVS

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Post by techdragon »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #12
ddorian43 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you use lmdb ?

That was the first one I tried actually. It was a complete nightmare to get to work on windows and its performance on windows was dismal, as in hundreds of writes per second instead of millions. It was a colossal waste of time.

There's your problem. You're using Windows /jk

Re: Toshiba has open-sourced GridDB, a Scalable In-Memory KVS

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Post by paulddraper »

pmalynin wrote: post #8
rubiquity wrote: post #5

Is there any piece of software that suffers more from Not Invented Here syndrome than Key-Value stores?

JavaScript Libraries.

That's a pretty broad category.

Last I checked, there were a lot of Java libraries.

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