[Nodeshot] Nodeshot Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1

[Douglas Meehan]

Its very new, so it would be something we'd have to pioneer.


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org> wrote:

>  Interesting, i'd like to see an implementation with django. If you find
> any please send.
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> On 05/11/2014 06:16 PM, Douglas Meehan wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org> wrote:
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>>  On 05/01/2014 04:48 PM, Douglas Meehan wrote:
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>> > Will nodeshot 2 support federation ?
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>>  Very interesting idea. +1.
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>>  This could be a good place to start: https://github.com/maxogden/dat
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>>  Would it mean to change the database and hack the Django ORM?
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>> I was looking into Foreign Data Wrappers, check out what Heroku pubished
>> on their blog (*bold text mine*):
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>> 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>
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>> 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.
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>> 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*.
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>> 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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