From elw at stderr.org  Wed Dec 24 18:48:48 2014
From: elw at stderr.org (elijah wright)
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:48:48 -0600
Subject: [Rd] how useful could be a fast and embedded database for the R
	community?
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I believe in patches and working code.

You're proposing to compete with the likes of sqlite and berkeley db
-- not small competition, with excellent performance characteristics
when used properly.

You also used the 'b'illions word in reference to data sets - really?

best,

--e


On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:31 AM, joanv <joan.iglesias at live.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm developing a new database with the ability to perform very fast seek,
> insert, and delete operations. Also is able to perform very fast comparison
> of datasets. It has been designed to work embedded into other programs
> programmed in R, Fortran, C++, etc.
>
> It can manage efficiently billions of numeric datasets in a single machine.
>
> Right now I do not know in what fields of the R community could be helpful
> such a database, or if there could be a need of such a capability in the R
> community.
>
> Could someone help me in this topic? Partners for the project are also
> wanted, specially R experts, or experts on other kinds of calculation
> programs (vasp, gaussian, etc... )
>
> Regards and thank you.
>
>
>
>
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[Rd] how useful could be a fast and embedded database for the R community?
elijah wright