Re: ZEO vs NEO

Jim Fulton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zodb
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I plan to finish the work I started on ZEO to port it to asyncio, as
I'm pretty far along.  In addition to moving to a modern networking
library (supporting SSL), this will allow me to greatly simplify the
ZEO implementation, which is something I've wanted to do for some
time.  (I expect that when I'm done, someone else will port the
asyncio code to Trollius to get Python 2 support.)  As part of this
I'll likely make ZEO a little bit more like NEO:

- Per-object rather than global server commit locks, and a shorter
window for commit locks.

- Moving conflict resolution to clients by moving conflict-resolution
handling into ZODB itself, probably through some pluggable mechanism
outside the storage layers. This should allow some simplification of
NEO and Relstorage.

I also plan to devote a lot more time studying NEO.  Maybe someday NEO
will replace ZEO, or maybe ZEO will serve applications that don't need
multiple servers. We'll see.

Jim

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I really like the NEO architecture, at least at a high level.  I
> haven't studied it in detail.  I've been planning to work toward a
> similar architecture with ZEO.  A big stumbling block for me has been
> NEO's GPL license.
>
> I was speaking with Jean-Paul Smets the other day and we discussed
> adjusting NEO's license to make it more broadly usable.  He suggested
> making the client LGPL.  Hypothetically, If NEO eventually replaced
> ZEO and had an LGPL license, would the LGPL license present a problem
> for anyone?
>
> If the LGPL isn't a problem, I'd put a lot more effort into looking at
> NEO as a client-server architecture for ZODB, likely as a replacement
> for ZEO.
>
> So does the LGPL present a problem to anyone?
>
> Jim
>
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> Jim Fulton
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