From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T05:42:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a Fast Persistent Store

Kirk Haines wrote:
> How fast is fast enough, and what kind of transaction support do you 
> need?
>
<snip>
> I have a class that is part of the suite of caches I provide in IOWA 
> that I have recently been working on.
>
<snip>
> I'm currently expanding the test cases for it and cleaning up some 
> bugs, and will go ahead and release it as a standalone package this 
> weekend. Maybe it will help you. 
Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> Kirk, how did you do this? Are you storing immutable objects and
> turning older versions into garbage somehow? If you have no indexing,
> then how do you enforce a consistent view across processes without
> incurring disk i/o (at least having to read the inode)? Or are you
> managing an arena that is backed by shared memory and you convert the
> key values deterministically into offsets?
>
> Sorry for all the questions, but I've just had to fight with this
> problem too many times and it would be great if you've come up with a
> better mousetrap.

I'm interested in this, too...please make an announcement on the list 
when you release it? :)

-Justin