From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Database implementation
From: anothy@cosym.net
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:03:33 -0500
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i'm not sure if it's suitable for your needs, but i'm quite fond of
pq. there's a plan 9 distribution for it (a seperate package
available on the download page). it is based on plain text
files with delimiters, and can optionally work with indexes for
a substantial speed increase on very large data sets. even
without the indexes, it's reasonably snappy. the programs are
relatively small. a cousin of the version available for plan 9
runs (ran?) the corporate directories for Lucent and AT&T, and
a slightly more distant relative ran some public directory
service AT&T ran (can't remember the name). the protocol's
much simpler than SQL (for what _that's_ worth), and the
client doesn't need to know anything about the structure of
the tables or relations on the server.

a paper got written about it, but i'm not sure if it's available
to the non-Lucent world, or, if so, where.
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