[9front] using ndb as a general purpose database

[9front] using ndb as a general purpose database

[sml]

Greetings, 

recently I stumbled across a video where ndb was used as a general purpose database. 

It looked very good and I am a friend of using only the on-board tools if possible. However, ndb(6) explicitly mentions "network database" and anything beyond that would probably be a misuse. 

Does anyone here use ndb as a general purpose database, or would you rather advise against it because it is not intended that way?

Thank you very much!

Best regards, 
sml

Re: [9front] using ndb as a general purpose database

[Humm]

Quoth sml:
>Does anyone here use ndb as a general purpose database, or would you 
>rather advise against it because it is not intended that way?

“General purpose” is very broad.  PostgreSQL is not great for storing 
a little metadata about a few TV shows.  Ndb is not very suitable for 
storing much data that changes often.

I use ndb to write down shows I have watched.

-- 
Humm

Re: [9front] using ndb as a general purpose database

[sirjofri]

10.05.2022 19:08:24 sml <sml@firstpost.pub>:
> Does anyone here use ndb as a general purpose database, or would you 
> rather advise against it because it is not intended that way?

I see no reason _not_ to use it if the use case fits perfectly. In the 
end there are other similar database-like systems in 9 context, for 
example factotum and inferno registry.

For simpler databases plain text files with a specific format are often 
good enough. Ndb databases have the benefit that you can just use ndb 
programs for querying, which works great using a shell script.

sirjofri

Re: [9front] using ndb as a general purpose database

[Sean Hinchee]

Not ndb, but Inferno introduced attrdb and cfg

I reimplemented cfg in Go and have used it in a handful of projects:
https://github.com/henesy/cfg

It works well enough as a plug and play key/value store format.

Cheers,
Sean

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:26 AM sirjofri
<sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de> wrote:
>
>
> 10.05.2022 19:08:24 sml <sml@firstpost.pub>:
> > Does anyone here use ndb as a general purpose database, or would you
> > rather advise against it because it is not intended that way?
>
> I see no reason _not_ to use it if the use case fits perfectly. In the
> end there are other similar database-like systems in 9 context, for
> example factotum and inferno registry.
>
> For simpler databases plain text files with a specific format are often
> good enough. Ndb databases have the benefit that you can just use ndb
> programs for querying, which works great using a shell script.
>
> sirjofri

Re: [9front] using ndb as a general purpose database

[ori]

Quoth sml <sml@firstpost.pub>:
> Greetings, 
> 
> recently I stumbled across a video where ndb was used as a general purpose database. 
> 
> It looked very good and I am a friend of using only the on-board tools if possible. However, ndb(6) explicitly mentions "network database" and anything beyond that would probably be a misuse. 
> 
> Does anyone here use ndb as a general purpose database, or would you rather advise against it because it is not intended that way?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Best regards, 
> sml


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