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

[Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com>]

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:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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