From: Alex B. <boi...@in...> - 2003-02-24 18:56:09
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Fernando Padilla wrote: > Thank you for the response. I was just asking because the last relese was > August 2001. And I have to wonder, did it reach it's goal or vision, or > do you feel it still has somewhere to go? Any improvements/enhancements > that you would like to see? JDBM 0.12 has been very stable for many people, hence there's been no pressing need to make another release since. This said, I've been working on the code and incorporated many users' feedback and patches. This current work can be seen in CVS. I'm planning to make another release soon, as soon as I fix some recent performance degradation, as reported recently on the website discussion forums. If you are going to start using JDBM, I suggest you start using the CVS version since the APIs have changed a little but the code has remained stable. > Also, another person on this list suggested to have a lookat Jisp, > http://www.coyotegulch.com/algorithm/jisp/ , as an alternate to JDBM. It > looks pretty good, but that looks like a one person show, not a community. > Any thoughts on this? Based solely on the feature list (I don't have experience with it), I would say the main feature differentiator is transactions. There seem to be a variety of small technical differences (ie. their BTree supports duplicate kes) but both projects seem to attempt the solve the same problem with more-or-less the same approach. alex |