[gambit-list] Mnesia

David Rush kumoyuki at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 18:57:08 EST 2008


On Jan 17, 2008 8:53 PM, Joe Hosteny <jhosteny at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Has anyone taken a close look at Mnesia, to the point of considering
> doing something like it using Termite? I'm not necessarily thinking of
> an architectural clone, but perhaps something similarly geared towards
> horizontal scalability that has native code queries?

Well there's a curious idea that I've been kicking around ever since
the release of R6RS made me start to think through what I *really*
thought needed fixing in Scheme - and that is the question of why it
is that only strings can be interned? It seems to me that if you
extend that concept to all the datatypes you have a very
interesting-looking embedded database system. If you add a persistence
manager it gets even better.

Obviously, the idea is a little trickier than what I can lay out in a
five-sentence email, but I think there is a powerful notion rolling
around in there somewhere. Termite seems like a fairly reasonable
platform for it as well.

david rush
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