Re: [PECL-DEV] New extension: chdb

hi Lorenzo,

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Lorenzo Castelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 22:22 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote:
>> Have you considered hidef too? Maybe the two can be merged into one extension?
>
> As far as I can see hidef is quite different design-wise. The main
> design choice of chdb is the use of a memory-mapped file for storing the
> database, which allows for constant time initial loading, on-demand page
> loading, sharing across multiple processes and caching across process
> recycling.
>
> I'm not sure about what kind of merging could be done. What would you
> propose?

Hidef idea is to make contants cost free, no runtime initialization.
That's its primary goal.

The constants are stored in a simple ini file, that's the difference
with your extension. A backend based design would allow both a DB or
whatever else we could imagine while having the benefits of hidef's
primary goal. It will also avoids to have one extension per storage.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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