[mb-devel] ThingDB from The Open Library

[Robert Kaye]

On Jul 17, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Simon Reinhardt wrote:

> Robert Kaye wrote:
>> On Jul 17, 2007, at 6:02 AM, Peter Brooks wrote:
>>> I'm starting to find a lot of wiki's aren't aging very well.
>> And its for this exact reason that I worry about jumping on new  
>> tech. The idea of a relational database has been around and proven  
>> for quite some time and the postgres team is working very hard to  
>> make the DB better with each release. I worry about relying on  
>> data store technology that hasn't been proven.
>> Granted, we could probably save ourselves a lot of work not having  
>> to shoehorn things to a relational database, but having a rock  
>> solid database makes me sleep good at night.
>
> ThingDB is not a new data store technology though, it's a schema  
> for relational databases that allows to store semi-structured data  
> in a relational database. And actually they're using Postgres for it.

Postgres and people with serious street cred behind OpenLibrary.

However, as far as I am concerned its still *new* software that  
hasn't been proven yet. Until OpenLibrary grows up and has a sizable  
data-set behind it, its unproven to me.

I've been distracted by the "ooooh! shiny!" technology once (RDF!)  
and it didn't do MusicBrainz or me much good, so I am a bit more  
hesitant when the newest shiniest technology creeps around the corner.

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