[Metakit] multiple readers and multiple writers

[Brian Kelley]

metakit supports one writer and multiple readers with the caveat if
the writers writes to the same table a reader is "reading" the reader
becomes invalid.  I.e. the data is not what you would expect.

Brian

On 2/10/07, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
> I forget if I've asked this before and I apologize if I did. Does
> metakit use a shared memory model of operation and support multiple
> readers and multiple writers?  My application is drowning in little dbm
> files and I'd like to unify things and take advantage of keeping data in
> memory whenever possible.  as I told a friend of mine:
>
> each user has  a fast white list, a cache for green, yellow, red traps.
>
> for site wide, I have a verify cache as well as reputation and rate of
> arrival.  rate of arrival and reputation will need to be accessible from
> multiple systems.
>
> when processing messages and done, I open fast white list (user
> specific), verify cache, reputation, and and one of the green, yellow,
> red traps.  Right now with DBMS, most of the transactions are
> open/lock/rw/close.
>
> I know I keep circling around the drain on this topic but I think that's
> because back of my brain is telling me that my current solution is
> wrong.  I'm just hoping when my friend pops over to talk about databases
> that I can stop circling.  :-)
> ---eric
>
>
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