From peter@apache.org Fri May 10 00:41:50 2002 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact db-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list db@apache.org Received: (qmail 5435 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 00:41:50 -0000 Received: from mail010.syd.optusnet.com.au (210.49.20.138) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 May 2002 00:41:50 -0000 Received: from c16791.lowrp1.vic.optusnet.com.au (c16791.lowrp1.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.211.157]) by mail010.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4A0fvL11733 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 10:41:57 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Peter Donald To: db@apache.org Subject: Re: scope? purpose? rationale? Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:40:35 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <921E60ADEB30D84EACA350AD31A1FD7506E4E7@chiex02.britannica.net> <3CDB0CB8.8090906@sitepen.com> In-Reply-To: <3CDB0CB8.8090906@sitepen.com> X-Wisdom: A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200205101040.35483.peter@apache.org> X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Fri, 10 May 2002 09:56, Ellis Teer wrote: > Kicking up conversation, > > Would db's scope also include projects for: > > data caching layers? yep. > database load balancing? That covers a lot of ground but if it was software then maybe :) > data transform? you talkin DataMining/Olap etc or something? > How many layers between the application server space and the data serve= r > space will the project occupy? What about client GUI's to manipulate > data structures? You mean DataAware components or something? If so probably. If you mean something like admin tools ala SquirrelSQL then probablty. > Is db all things database related?=20 Depends on your definition of "database" but yes mostly. It would allow t= hings=20 like Jisp (BTree library for writing storages on filesystem), UI access=20 libraries (ie DataAware components or forms generators), db pools/manager= s,=20 different databases themselves (xml, OO, relational) etc > That seems like a big space and > likely to have a lot of overlap with technology based apache projects > like xml and jakarta. yep. But not really different from how xml <--> jakarta overlap. Both hav= e web=20 app frameworks both do funky stuff with XML. --=20 Cheers, Peter Donald