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gritzko / swarm

JavaScript replicated model (M of MVC) library
http://swarmdb.net/
MIT License
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Production Ready? #64

Closed NickClark closed 8 years ago

NickClark commented 8 years ago

A few questions:

  1. Is swarm production ready?
  2. There appears to be no actual production ready Storages (MongoDB, Mysql, Postgres?)
  3. How hard is it to make custom a Storage?
  4. I don't see a clear strategy for query or collection syncing (Some adds a new item, removes one, etc from a query)
gritzko commented 8 years ago

Congratulations, your issue is number 1000000 (binary). Here are my (likely incomplete) answers:

  1. No. Version 0.3 is abandoned due to some difficulties (the math was not good enough to make a production ready system). The upcoming release is very unstable (and backwards incompatible as it uses new awesome math). 2.The upcoming release works on top of LevelUp (practically, leveldb or IndexedDB). It may flush data to whatever other DB, theoretically.
  2. If we talk about DB integration (not storage engine) then the answer is "easy". Unfortunately, "easy" integration works one way, i.e. Swarm to some DB (Kafka-like "db as a view" situation).
  3. There are various CRDT collection types. 0.3 has Vector and Set. Queries are possible using the aforementioned DB integration (API published queries, not arbitrary queries from the client).
NickClark commented 8 years ago

Thank you so much for your prompt and complete-enough answers! :+1: