Re: S.O.D.A. database Query API - call for comments

Tobias Brox wrote:
> I've been thinking very hard about indexing, scoring and searching
> lately. News articles, software documentation, music, etc, etc - it all
> should be indexed and eventually scored somehow, and the power user
> should have powerful tools for searching around.
 [...]
> I do have quite some ideas about some general libraries that can be used
> in other software projects. I think the possibilities for organizing
> and scoring data, and then search for particular records should be
> needed in almost any application ... email clients, address books ...
> you name it. It might be interessting to have a look at object oriented
> DB systems, though I was originally thinking of building my system on
> the top of a traditional RDBMS/SQL system. It should be possible to use
> SQL somehow.
>
> I'll post back about my ideas at a later stage.

Hi Tobias,

I would be very interested to hear more about your ideas.

"Scoring" evaluation or fuzzy evaluation could very well be part of an API. If you take a look at an old post to our discussion group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oodb/message/30 I have also been thinking about the idea before.

Adding functionality that can not be expressed with SQL could be a next step for future development of the specification.

Kind regards,
Carl

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Carl Rosenberger
db4o - database for objects - http://www.db4o.com