[Nodeshot] Nodeshot Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1

[Nemesis]

Interesting, i'd like to see an implementation with django. If you find
any please send.


On 05/11/2014 06:16 PM, Douglas Meehan wrote:
> No, I don't think you'd need to change the database or the ORM. Dat
> allows you to write transformations to translate between the data
> repository and whatever database you are using. It's like Git, but for
> data. So you could have a decentralized datastore that could sync
> across multiple instances of nodeshot. 
>
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org
> <mailto:nemesis at ninux.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/01/2014 04:48 PM, Douglas Meehan wrote:
>>     > Will nodeshot 2 support federation ?
>>
>>     Very interesting idea. +1.
>>
>>     This could be a good place to start: https://github.com/maxogden/dat
>
>     Would it mean to change the database and hack the Django ORM?
>
>     I was lookinginto Foreign Data Wrappers, check out what Heroku
>     pubished on their blog (*bold text mine*):
>
>     https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/9/9/postgres_93_now_available
>
>
>           Foreign Tables
>           <https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/9/9/postgres_93_now_available#foreign-tables>
>
>     Foreign data wrappers (FDWs), which allow you to query from within
>     Postgres to an external datasource, have been available for a
>     couple of releases. Now Postgres ships with a built-in Postgres
>     FDW as an extension
>     <http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/08/05/a-look-at-FDWs/>. With
>     the Postgres FDW aggregating and reporting against your data from
>     disparate Heroku Postgres databases is as simple as |CREATE
>     EXTENSION postgres_fdw|, followed by setting up your foreign tables.
>
>     Beyond the built in Postgres FDW available to all Heroku Postgres
>     9.3 users today, the API for foreign data wrappers now supports
>     them writing as well as reading data. *This lays the groundwork
>     for more powerful wrappers to be built which in the future will
>     enable Postgres to be a fully federated database*.
>
>     We’ve already begun taking advantage of foreign data wrappers
>     internally at Heroku for reporting and look forward to hearing how
>     you take advantage of them yourselves.
>
>

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