And Skylar Thompson writes: > There seems to be a trend in the bioinformatics community for > using the filesystem as a database.
Well, the file system *is* a hierarchical key-value store, and it's one that just about every program can use without special adapters, syntax, and/or complexity. Users already are familiar with tons of tools for querying and manipulating the file system, etc. And it's stupidly easy to parallelize over keys (files), only re-run jobs that have changed, etc. using common tools. I know there's some work out there on single-node file systems layered on fast k/v stores. I wonder if it wouldn't be wiser to build a FS on a distributed k/v store for these uses... _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
