Hi!
On 12/01/2010 04:59 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
On 12/1/2010 5:26 AM, Göran Krampe wrote:
I want to build an API for Riak (awesome NoSQL db) and there is a choice of using HTTP or Protocol Buffers. Evidently Protocol Buffers offer a quite higher degree of performance so I am leaning towards that.
Now, has anyone dabbled with implementing Protocol Buffers for Squeak/Pharo/Smalltalk? Couldn't find anything.
I haven't seen anything. But from my understanding protocol buffers are an (efficient) RPC data representation, not a transport protocol like http. In other words, the comparison between protocol buffers and http
Yes.
doesn't make sense at this level (protocol buffers can be used WITH http), it should be between protocol buffers and JSON, XML or some other serialization format. You might want to dig into that first before making a decision.
Sure, but you may have misunderstood me - there *are* two available APIs to use for Riak - one is HTTP based with JSON and the other is a binary Socket protocol using Protocol Buffers. Sorry for being too inspecific.
Either one would be awesome to have - and if I opted for the HTTP protocol I would use your WebClient (MIT license now, right?).
And btw, Riak - for those who do not know - is IMHO the most promising NoSQL db of them all. It's coolest feature is pure "just-add-another-box"-scalability - it is AFAIK the most Dynamo-ish db out there as open source.
regards, Göran