Thank you for bringing up recutils and ndb. I had seen them years ago but didn't make the connection when writing this paper. But there are some great connectio

Thank you for bringing up recutils and ndb. I had seen them years ago but didn't make the connection when writing this paper. But there are some great connections, and I will definitely be updating the post with a section and links to them. I am reading through the source and will have more to say soon. If anyone has any links to massive plain text datasets based on these (or other similar tools), I would appreciate more pointers. I can tell you now (subject to change), based on my preliminary read through the source is that the two systems you mentioned missed some highly important details that I have presented in my paper, with order of magnitude impacts. Not to discredit them at all, rather I think my work gives them credit, in that they were on the right track, and we just have the benefit of some recent innovations, and get to stand on their shoulders (and the shoulders of others). Edit: I have updated the paper with a reference to Recutils. Thanks rakoo! https://github.com/breck7/breckyunits.com/commit/71b706d296ecfa1caa3dae05d746258be520cbf5 https://github.com/breck7/breckyunits.com/commit/71b706d296e... The added text: GNU Recutils^recutils deserves credit as the closest precursor to our system. If Recutils were to adopt some designs from our system it would be capable of supporting larger databases. https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ ^recutils: GNU Recutils: Jose E. Marchesi https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ - Recutils and our system have debatable syntactic differences, but our system solves a few clear problems described in the Recutils docs: - "difficult to manage hierarchies". Hierarchies are painless in our system through nested parsers, parser inheritance, parser mixins, and nested measurements. - "tedious to manually encode...several lines". No encoding is needed in our system thanks to the indentation trick. - In Recutils comments are "completely ignored by processing tools and can only be seen by looking at the recfile itself". Our system supports first class comments which are bound to measurements using the indentation trick. - "It is difficult to manually maintain the integrity of data stored in the data base." In our system advances parsers provides unlimited capabilities for maintaining data integrity.