[erlang-questions] "Erlang plus BDB: Disrupting the Conventional Web Wisdom"

[Ciprian Dorin Craciun]

    Thank you for the prompt and complete reply! I will investigate
the library, as I am eager to try it.

    Ciprian.


On 10/11/07, Chris Newcombe <chris.newcombe@REDACTED> wrote:
> I'd recommend using EDTK 1.5.1, available from here:
>
>    http://www.snookles.com/erlang/edtk/
>
>
> >    My question is how stable and complete is the library for Erlang?
>
> Obviously I'm biased as I put a lot of work into updating EDTK
> precisely to make BDB support 'industrial strength'.
>
> I've done a lot of testing (on linux only) and it appears to be stable
> (indeed it comes with about 20 official patches for Berkeley DB from
> Oracle to fix bugs that I found during stress testing).
>
> It is also mostly complete; all major BDB subsystems are supported,
> including transactions, replication, full configuration, the 'stats'
> APIs (which return internal metadata that is vital for performance
> tuning etc), distributed transactions (including a ready-to-roll
> 'Global Transaction Manager' server), and even replicated distributed
> transactions :)
>
> The test-suite is also quite comprehensive.  Sadly some of the tests
> contain timers and timeouts that are somewhat hardware dependent -- it
> passes on my test systems, but fails on machines that differ
> significantly from those machines in performance.
>
> > Can it be used for real life applications? Has some one used it?
>
> There are people building industrial systems with it, but
> unfortunately can't give more details.  Also, the Berkeley DB team at
> Oracle is investigating whether to use it to enhance their own testing
> of BDB-HA (replication), as Erlang makes distributed tests so much
> easier than other approaches.
>
> > Also I could not find a proper usage documentation or at least an API.
>
> Here is a fairly detailed introduction:
>
>   http://www.snookles.com/erlang/edtk/edtk-1.5.1.README-cnewcom
>
> There is also significant API documentation at the top of most of the
> modules in examples/berkeley_db, all in the tarball.    (Also there
> are two stand alone short examples, with and without replication, that
> both have documentation.)
>
>   http://www.snookles.com/erlang/edtk/edtk-1.5.1.tar.gz
>
> Here is some rationale and detail for the design and changes to EDTK
>
>   http://www.snookles.com/erlang/edtk/EDTK_BerkeleyDB.pdf
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 10/11/07, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@REDACTED> wrote:
> >    If we got to this subject... I have used Berkeley DB in the past
> > and I would also like to use it in Erlang.
> >
> >    My question is how stable and complete is the library for Erlang?
> > Can it be used for real life applications? Has some one used it?
> >
> >    Because I have searched for libraries -- I think I found several
> > of them -- but none seemed to be finished. Also I could not find a
> > proper usage documentation or at least an API. (Please excuse me if I
> > am wrong. I am a lousy searcher... :) )
> >
> >    Thanks all,
> >    Ciprian.