<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I'd love to hear/read about your take on the subject.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It would be really great to be able to have some querying or even better a reporting tool that worked with Elephant. May be something a la Crystal Reports, but that may be shooting too high :). How about something like <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://www.agata.org.br/?">http://www.agata.org.br/?</A></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Anyway, once we get a better understanding of what we are doing, how things work in Elephant, and how we are doing things, we'll give it a shot at trying to contribute some sort of querying or reporting tool. We need it anyway, so if we can do it, we'll contribute it. I was a bit surprised that we couldn't find any CL-based reporting package out there :(</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Thanks,</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Daniel</FONT></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Ian Eslick wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have another take on this for queries where you are looking for high throughput but want to stick with the elephant persistence model (slot values on disk) or your data won't fit in memory.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'll send this out when I get my computer back to an Inet connection...<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Robert and I have discussed adding DCM features to the main elephant release which might open up more options for a query package for elephant.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ian</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ian</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>