Magma (was: ODBMS querying (was: Multithreading))

Chris Muller chris at funkyobjects.org
Wed Mar 30 21:06:00 UTC 2005


> I'm glad to hear this.  http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2665 starts
> off with this:
> 
> 2/16/2004 - NOTE, all Magma pages are being updated for an impending
> ...
> Judging from the date I thought maybe it was dead.

Nope, just late.  Expect 

> > It is still not ready for commercial though.
> >
> One missing feature of earlier versions particularly concerned me:
> transactionns are not atomic in the case of radical failure (power
> out, process killed).  In other words, such an event could leave the
> database in a corrupt state.  Has that changed?

No, and that is a major reason for my above statement.  It is finally near the
top of my list, though.

> I have an app  that desperately needs a db, and I've been considering
> magma.  I also need the time to make the change :)

If you have any questions or issues, please let me know.

> It would probably be good to update the swiki.

Yes.  It's getting to the point where it'd be nice to have more people pounding
on it, will do.

 - Chris



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