SNsnaky·Apr 28, 2013
SkyDB is definitely most interesting thing I seen this year in DB field, mostly because it's a rare example of out-of-the-box thinking and considering higher level use cases than usual (data semantics level I'd say) may give you an orders of magnitude speedup.
But should I suggest, considering SkyDB highly experimental, maybe port it to more flexible backend like Mapkeeper[1] that gives for free not only easy switchable storage backends, but (not switchable, but changeable with a little effort) network/API backends (now it's Thrift), event engine (now it's libevent), etc. It would be nice to focus on core SkyDB things (which I think are data organization, API, stored procs etc.) while "outsource" the non-core low-level jobs to things like Mapkeeper.
And by the way, lmdb backend have being merged into Mapkeeper not so long ago :-)
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