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I've used Gemstone's OODB. It really isn't too good to be true. I'd look to 'not 100% free', not '1.9', no easy migration path to other data storage platforms (
by spooneybarger 15y ago
I've used Gemstone's OODB. It really isn't too good to be true. I'd look to 'not 100% free', not '1.9', no easy migration path to other data storage platforms ( switching off gemstone wouldnt be like switching from MySQL to PgSQL ) and various other concerns of that sort.
I'm am quite interested to hear from people who use Ruby but aren't interested in Maglev as to why they aren't interested.
- petercooper 15y agoNo 1.9. Believe it or not, a large number of people have moved across. I've been on it 'full time' for almost 2 years. Other than that, though, it adds a lot of new stuff to learn. I'm sure it'll be worth learning but for better or worse, it's easier to let other people play with the "1.0" and learn the lessons so that you can then rely more upon the "1.1" or whatever.
- halostatue 15y agoThis. I maintain a few gems and I'm trying to get my testing up to speed and make everything 1.9 compatible sooner rather than later. I'm not yet at the point where I'm going to cut off users of 1.8.7, but by time 2.0 comes out (February 2013), I will not be officially supporting 1.8.7 on any interpreter.
- jvoorhis 15y agoLack of documentation for busy people, and learning curve for a novel persistence engine. Many of us know how to scale MySQL, Postgres, etc. but my team has no operational knowledge for Gemstone. That said, the Gemstone/S docs are quite good.