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Reminds me of Prevayler [1], a database that had similar insane claims ("twenty thousand times faster than a regular database") and which carefully omitted to s
by zak_mc_kracken 12y ago
Reminds me of Prevayler [1], a database that had similar insane claims ("twenty thousand times faster than a regular database") and which carefully omitted to say that it was an in-memory database.
[1] http://prevayler.org/ http://prevayler.org/
- nl 12y agoPrevayler is always made the point that it is in-memory. Notably the front page says: It is an implementation of the Prevalent System design pattern, in which business objects are kept live in memory and transactions are journaled for system recovery It's been around for quite a while. Nearly 15 years ago Ward Cunningham (yes, that Ward Cunningham) was interested in the system and wrote a benchmark for it - I was one of the people who contributed data[1]. I never thought it was a great idea then, but back in those days computers were usually RAM-starved. Now it might make a little more sense. [1] http://c2.com/doc/SerializationThroughput/ http://c2.com/doc/SerializationThroughput/
- stephen 12y agoI used Prevayler on a small project a long time ago; it was awesome. The webapp was just incredibly snappy. Thanks for the nostalgia. :-)