Re: [boost] In-memory databases

From: Greg Colvin (Gregory.Colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-31 20:58:10

At 04:10 PM 1/31/2003, David B. Held wrote:
>I've seen some talk of fully in-memory databases, and have a few
>questions:
>
>1) Does anyone have any experience with them?

Yes.

>2) Would people use them if there were a nice library available?

Yes.

>It seems that such a library could benefit from the serialization/
>persistence library.  A reference for a Java database is here:
>
>http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=ObjectPrevalenceSkepticalFAQ
>
>The list of C++ databases seems pretty small, judging by Google.

You should check out the relational template library that
Arkadiy Vertleyb <vertleyb_at_[hidden]> and Dmitriy Arapov
<dmitriy_arapov_at_[hidden]> are working on.  Search the
Boost archives for threads with "relational" in the subject.

>Maybe such a thing is too ambitious to be a Boost library?

Nothing is too ambitious to be a Boost library ;->