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Spinneret (Hierarchical Database) Announcement

Announcing the Spinneret Hierarchical Database Project.

Spinneret is a structured storage engine that can be thought of as an extended tuple storage system. It takes the best aspects of relational, object, and hierarchical databases and throws away the dead weight associated with those technologies.

The benefit of Spinneret is that its data model is incredibly flexible, allowing it to expose its underlying data in any number of ways. It operates similar to an object database, but without hard ties to an originating language, and can also behave like a relational database without the burden of complex joins.... read more

Posted by Tom Bradford 2004-08-14