[Noisebridge-discuss] Distributed computing and storage (with some major caveats)

[Sai Emrys]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Jason Dusek<jason.dusek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/06/22 Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com>:
>> * do arbitrary mysql-style database operations (or worst case,
>> memcache-style plus some function for indexing)
>
>  Like `JOIN` and cross-table transactions?

That'd be nice, but can usually be spoofed by just doing a couple
rounds of simple select by id.

I mean more like being able to support non-trivial SELECT statements
(e.g. WHERE).

Basically, memcache is about the simplest thing that can possibly work
(a key/value pair with no insight or structure to the data or ability
to list all keys or keys matching a regex); I'd like it to support
indexing, search by field, etc. mysql per se is farther on in
complexity than I actually mean here; I just meant to give the two as
near-endpoints on the scale.

- Sai