Hi! On 06/30/2010 10:36 PM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
Taking about more future oriented stuff, I think it would be nice to have good support for document DBs (like CouchDB and MongoDB) and key/value stores (like Redis). At least for the former category of DBs, I know that a few people have been working on DB clients (see squeaksource.com) but I don't know how complete and stable they are.
Adrian
Braindump: For CouchDB there are two client libs on SS, one based on Curl and the other straight on SocketStream. Both are... quite limited, but I think they are pretty stable since the CouchDB API is RESTful its kinda easy. MongoDB has MongoTalk on SS by no other than Kent Beck. It looks quite ambitious and with a single little tweak the tests went green for me. MongoDB has IMHO more "buzz" right now and CouchDB seems slightly "stalling". I would guess MongoDB will grab more and more developer mindshare as time goes by, since it fits better with most apps actually. I am not aware of any binding for Redis. And yes, Redis is "neat" in its own way. I wrote a quite ambitious binding for Tokyo Tyrant, its on SS and has tests too. I think it is stable, but I am not that interested currently. My next little project in this arena would be a binding for Riak, since I think it is next to MongoDB and CouchDB one of the more interesting ones out there. It also has a RESTful API just like CouchDB and using WebClient seems logical these days. Finally I think another *hole* in our toolshed is support for all the funky new cool MQ products. I started implementing STOMP the other day and it will just take an hour or two to get it finished. Yes, there is an AMQP protocol implementation on SS, but I found it... quite undocumented. Given the author it is probably very correct though. regards, Göran