On Sep 8, 2007, at 6:44 PM, snacktime wrote:
>
> I''m working on a site that will most likely be huge and could
easily
> be one of the largest ruby on rails sites yet. While we will be
> using databases to some extent on the backend, I know that''s only
> going to scale out so far, so I''ve been looking at some
alternatives.
> Memcache is nice and I''m sure we will use it, but we are really
> looking for something more along the lines of a distributed rdbms. At
> the same time I''ve been playing around with erlang and mnesia for
the
> first time.
>
> It seems to me that it should be possible to write an AR adaptor that
> communicates as a client to an erlang node via tcp, and have code on
> the node to translate sql into mnesia database calls. While
> translating sql would be a pain, supporting simple queries should be
> doable without too much effort.
>
> Anyone working on something like this, or have ideas on interfacing
> rails with erlang OTP systems?
>
> Chris
Chris-
You might want to take a look at CouchDB. It''s built on erlang but
exposes data as json objects over a REST interface with a map/reduce
javascript query language.
http://couchdb.org/
Cheers-
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