Hi,

What are the use cases you have in mind ?

2010/6/23 Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com>:
> I'm wondering if we're going about this slightly the wrong way. Let's
> take a look at CouchDB. CouchDB prefers to keep all data on the disk
> at all times. As docs (or items) are added to a database they extend
> that database, but never overwrite it. In addition all changes are
> written instantly to disk, with no in memory cache.
>
> Here's what I'm thinking. We develop a new set of sequence compatible
> maps and vectors, that are immutable, yet stored on disk. Each
> vector/map would be stored in a separate file, and changes to this
> file would need to be serialized, but reading from the file could be
> performed co-currently. Instead of syncing in-memory structures to
> disk, the structures themselves are stored on disk. If the user wants
> to cache that data they must perform the caching themselves.
>
> I think I may give this a try tonight with vectors as a starting point.
>
> Timothy
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Daniel Werner
> <daniel.d.wer...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 7:57 pm, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> system it uses. Has anyone tried marrying the two system systems to
>>> create a truly persistent data primitive where any "updates" to a map
>>> is written to the disk?
>>
>> There has been an attempt at integrating STM transactions with DB
>> transactions, even including a patch, but sadly discontinued and very
>> outdated by now:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/aa22a709501a64ac
>> http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/external_transactions.patch?hl=en&gda=-S5y8U0AAADrLV-d6p24hYFcam_S99IgyJE26GXST0R-7SyR1V01WgTsgF1Et-2mKd4f9I_2PzGxx-qQneGAYu2No43QZpeq5Tb_vjspK02CR95VRrtmeQ&gsc=RG-y6gsAAAB4ToW0PqQMv0ZY_YCRY_xk
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