Python-LMDB In a High-Performance Environment

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 17, 2014 @05:01AM from the fast-enough-to-cause-drama dept.

lkcl writes: In an open letter to the core developers behind OpenLDAP (Howard Chu) and Python-LMDB (David Wilson) is a story of a successful creation of a high-performance task scheduling engine written (perplexingly) in Python. With only partial optimization allowing tasks to be executed in parallel at a phenomenal rate of 240,000 per second, the choice to use Python-LMDB for the per-task database store based on its benchmarks, as well as its well-researched design criteria, turned out to be the right decision. Part of the success was also due to earlier architectural advice gratefully received here on Slashdot. What is puzzling, though, is that LMDB on Wikipedia is being constantly deleted, despite its "notability" by way of being used in a seriously-long list of prominent software libre projects, which has been, in part, motivated by the Oracle-driven BerkeleyDB license change. It would appear that the original complaint about notability came from an Oracle employee as well.

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Re:Submitter doesn't understand Wikipedia notabili by Fwipp · 2014-10-17 05:22 · Score: 4, Insightful

Seriously, googling "python lmdb" shows up only documentation and lmdb blog updates on the first few pages, and also a link to this slashdot article. I don't see anybody interested in it or singing its praises.
It's okay that your pet project isn't wikipedia-noteworthy yet. Concentrate on your evangelism (like, get at least one person who isn't you to write about it), and then try submitting again once you have some sources to cite.