[elephant-devel] Backend and data retrieval questions

[Leslie P. Polzer]

Dear Rob,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 06:19:34PM +0100, Robert Synnott wrote:

> First, since I need to use multiple web application machines, I'm
> using the Postmodern backend. I assume there's no sane way to share a
> BDB db between multiple machines? My BDB knowledge more or less caps
> out at using it as a key/value store from C years ago, I'm afraid.

You basically have two options:

  * Use the Postmodern store with the old branch of Elephant
    (and be prepared to stay with it unless you make it work
    with the latest changes).

  * Develop or find a BDB server and integrate it into Elephant.


> How about searching via multiple indexes?

Try concatenated secondary indices.

  Leslie
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