Re: [boost] SQL library with full embedded SQL-syntax

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-16 19:26:11

Phil Endecott wrote:
> But in order to be useful, such a library would need to offer all of 
> the important features of current databases, i.e. good performance with 
> huge on-disk data sets, transactions, client/server operation, 
> concurrency, and so on.  To some extent these requirements can be 
> usefully addressed as individual problems.
>
> So if someone is looking for something to do, how about starting with 
> containers, iterators and allocators for huge on-disk data structures.  
> This could be based on the existing shared memory containers, but using 
> mmap()ed windows into files.  Then we'd probably want some sort of 
> dynamic algorithm selection ("query planning") mechanism.
>   
Aren't you designing a database here instead of a generic relational
interface?

Sebastian Redl