[erlang-questions] Fwd: BossDB - a sharded, caching, pooling, evented ORM for Erlang

[Zabrane Mickael]

Fantastic work Evan.

Regards,
Zabrane

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> From: Evan Miller <emmiller@REDACTED>
> Subject: [erlang-questions] BossDB - a sharded, caching, pooling, evented ORM for Erlang
> Date: February 20, 2012 9:48:12 PM GMT+01:00
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> 
> BossDB is an advanced database ORM that was recently spun off from
> Chicago Boss into its own project. If you hate parameterized modules,
> parse transforms, and dirty compiler hacks, stop reading immediately,
> because BossDB extensively (ab)uses all three in order to make
> database work productive and fun.
> 
> GitHub page: https://github.com/evanmiller/boss_db
> 
> FEATURES
> 
> * Define your data model with parameterized modules. Accessor,
> association, and save methods are automatically generated for you.
> BossRecords, modeled on ActiveRecord, can be sent straight to ErlyDTL
> for rendering (e.g. Person:name() in Erlang, or {{ person.name }} in
> ErlyDTL).
> 
> * Validation and save hooks
> 
> * Five battle-tested database SQL/NoSQL adapters with test coverage:
> Mnesia, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Tokyo Tyrant.
> 
> * Easy to write additional adapters, just 200-300 lines of Erlang code
> 
> * Naming conventions similar to Rails (plural table names, -has,
> -belongs_to, ...)
> 
> * Language-integrated querying. This goes a bit beyond parse
> transforms and supports Unicode query operators directly inside Erlang
> code -- 18 search operators in all.
> 
> * Intelligent, adapter-agnostic connection pooling
> 
> * Support for vertical sharding: model associations work across
> independent databases.
> 
> * A model event system called BossNews, which can create notifications
> based on custom rules (e.g. "execute this callback when this field
> changes on this record")
> 
> * Memcached-based query and record caching. Cache entries are
> automatically invalidation thanks to BossNews. Never write another
> cache-related save hook again!
> 
> 
> BossDB is certainly not for everybody, but with it you can write very
> concise, readable code when dealing with a database in Erlang. BossDB
> has been the centerpiece of Chicago Boss since 2009; it is a fairly
> mature piece of software and being used in production on a number of
> websites (including, I recently found out, the #1 dating website in
> the Philippines). The best part IMHO is BossNews, which brings model
> event notifications to the server with a simple API -- great for
> creating alerts or real-time notifications.
> 
> It should be straightforward to integrate BossDB into existing stacks,
> but note that you need to compile model files with the BossRecord
> compiler. In addition, you will need to use the BossDB compiler chain
> to take advantage of language-integrated queries (which involves an
> unholy workflow of intercepting scanner errors, rewriting the token
> list, running the tokens through a custom pre-processor[1], applying a
> parse transform, and finally sending the transmogrified parse tree off
> to compile:forms).
> 
> Future plans mainly involve adapting BossDB to work with other
> databases; there is a half-finished Riak adapter included in the
> project, but there is room for many more. BossDB should be able to
> work with pretty much any SQL or NoSQL database that supports
> querying.
> 
> Happy querying, and let me know if you have any questions about the project!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Evan
> 
> 
> 
> 1. Aleppo, an alternative to EPP: https://github.com/evanmiller/aleppo
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