Re: RDBMS backend

Hans Chalupsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.powerloom
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The RDBMS backend allows you to map relational database tables,
projections thereof, as well as arbitrary parametric SQL queries onto
PowerLoom relations.  Querying these relations in PowerLoom (either
directly or during backward inference) then calls out to the database
to bring in relevant data.  Known bindings on the PowerLoom relation
translate dynamically into appropriate WHERE constraints (e.g., during
inference).  This is useful to deal with large datasets or to build a
simple deductive layer on top of a database.  There is also some
limited support to map PowerLoom assertions onto database table
updates.

We currently support MySQL and Oracle through a variety of different
access interfaces (depending on whether this runs in Lisp, C++ or Java).

The bad news (for you :-) is that we haven't released this yet.  This
is more or less ready but needs a bit more packaging and
documentation.  Releasing this has been on the TO DO list for a while,
we just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Hans

>>>>> Kambiz Darabi <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
> in some part of the docs, I read about an RDBMS backend.

> How does it work? Where can I find it?

> Many thanks


> Kambiz

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