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  1. Gemstone's Maglev by janwedekind · · Score: 1 · on Widenius Warns Against MySQL Falling Into Oracle's Hands

    Another interesting (but proprietary) project is Maglev. The idea is that you write programs in Ruby and the virtual machine gives you persistence and clustering for your variables in a transparent way.

  2. Re:Ruby? by vjoel · · Score: 1 · on Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster

    Magnetic Levitation = MagLev

  3. Re:Twice as fast... by bstadil · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ruby 1.9.1 Released

    Too busy to just google for 2 sec before spouting off?
    Here is jRuby using java VM , Maglev using Smalltalk VM , IronRuby using MS .Net , or pure Ruby Rubinius>Rubinius all aimed at among other execution speed.

  4. Re:Sounds cool, but not open by killjoe · · Score: 1 · on MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf

    >here is still only one data store in gemstone according to the blog post. Can it be scaled beyond that?

    You mean beyond the 17 petrabytes it supports now?

    >How?

    You add more instances (servers). Any modification made to any server will propogate to the other servers.

    >I've never heard of any big website using gemstone.

    So? Why should I care whether you have heard of something or not? Why is that relevant?

    Have you ever heard of seaside? Smalltalk? Dabbledb?

    >If it was open, I'd be more willing to kick its tires, knowing that small problems could be fixed and a community might arise around it.

    More than likely there will be a free and limited version you can try. Till then you can try this

    http://seaside.gemstone.com/

  5. Re:Sounds cool, but not open by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 1 · on MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf

    Further research on gemstone's scalability sounds promising. Still have reservations, and would still like to have a non press release review of its capabilities by an independant third party.

  6. Re:Oh my god... by RevAaron · · Score: 2 · on Why Aren't You Using An OODMS?

    GemStone/S is still a commercial app, but pretty much all of the Smalltalk source is included. That's something particular to Smalltalk culture, not so much the product specifically. But, if you really wanted, you could make fundamental changes to any part of the system.

  7. Re:As an alternate to RDMS by RevAaron · · Score: 3 · on Are Expensive RDBM Systems Worth The Money?

    Along those lines, there's also GemStone/S and GemStone/J, OODBMSs for Smalltalk and Java respectively. I don't know about the Java version, but the Smalltalk version is pretty cool stuff, and can interface with C and C++. A lot of people prefer not to call it an OODBMS, but an application server. It's both, more or less.

  8. Re:As an alternate to RDMS by RevAaron · · Score: 3 · on Are Expensive RDBM Systems Worth The Money?

    Along those lines, there's also GemStone/S and GemStone/J, OODBMSs for Smalltalk and Java respectively. I don't know about the Java version, but the Smalltalk version is pretty cool stuff, and can interface with C and C++. A lot of people prefer not to call it an OODBMS, but an application server. It's both, more or less.

  9. Re:C: smaller,faster is still better for "platform by washort · · Score: 1 · on After the Gold Rush : Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering

    >> C will always be the language of choice for platforms.


    Why? Is this for technical or social reasons?
    Lisp and Smalltalk have been used to implement operating systems,HTTP servers, and database systems and quite efficient and powerful ones at that. What advantage does C have besides being close to the hardware?

    examples:
    Li sp Machines
    CL-HTTP Hypermedia Server
    Squeak
    Pluggable Webserver and Swiki
    MinneStore
    GemStone