Re: [Rdkit-devel] dependency of the chemical cartridge from PostgreSQL's GiST index

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

HI Riccardo,

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Riccardo Vianello
<ric...@gm...> wrote:
>
> the question is actually a bit speculative, but how much does the
> chemical cartridge depend on the GiST index in its functionality and
> performances? Do you think porting the cartridge to a different rdbms
> would be potentially feasible, or is the implementation very specific
> to PostgreSQL?

This is unfortunately not an area where I have strong expertise, so
it's a hard question for me to answer. I would guess that the methods
used for the postgresql index could also be adapted to the indexing
technologies used for other rdbms, but that's really a guess.

Best Regards,
-greg