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

[Riccardo V. <ric...@gm...>]

Hi Greg,

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Greg Landrum <gre...@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.

Thanks for your reply. I agree the question was quite generic and an
answer would require a high level of specialized expertise, so I hoped
some basic estimates were already available :-)

Best Regards,
Riccardo