Code: OrientDB

Somewhere between yesterday and today, I came across OrientDB.


http://code.google.com/p/orient/

They (being the creators) make some bold claims. 

“A single server makes the work of about 125 servers running MySQL“

“can store up to 150,000 records per second on common hardware”

Features: 

REST, Java APIs… 

Document, Object, SQL, Key-Value + other db form supports… Basically a document storage and uses a grid store for the relationships. Everything (SQL, Key-Value, Object, etc) is built on top of those two things. 

Anyway, installation is pretty easy. 

1. Download the zip file. 

2. Unzip. 

3. bin/startup.bat (for windows)

4. Goto http://localhost:2480/ for the admin UI. (unless that port was originally taken)

The admin UI is decent, but seems broken for me when trying to create new class / property / schema / other misc things. Well, it gives me a can’t access the database error, which means I probably missed a step somewhere. 

Haven’t really tested beyond this. Will wait until it matures a little more. As it seems to need it. I could never get their live web demo to work. 

Can’t wait to ditch MySQL… Not that I don’t mind RDMS, but it’s just so much overkill for today’s storage needs (where space is cheaper then cpu cycles)

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