From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.162.77 with SMTP id l74mr27603493ioe.18.1516136560563; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:02:40 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.1.22 with SMTP id 22mr331398otu.0.1516136560079; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:02:40 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!g80no2693742itg.0!news-out.google.com!b73ni17456ita.0!nntp.google.com!g80no2693738itg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:02:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <85b110b6-4ac7-47f4-bd23-53d0493d4b31@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.113.16.86; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.113.16.86 References: <85b110b6-4ac7-47f4-bd23-53d0493d4b31@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <837b09a8-22eb-4479-a262-f763fd3329dc@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Request for DSA Tutorials & Advice From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:02:40 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2787 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1416642690 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49948 Date: 2018-01-16T13:02:39-08:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 1:32:42 PM UTC-7, polymorph self wrote: > On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 10:43:22 AM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote: > > I have a small project which I would like to use the DSA for -- the gen= eral functionality is simple: a database distributed over various servers. = (The project is an implementation of MUMPS; which means the 'heart' of the = project is a database implemented as a B-Tree distributed over multiple ser= vers.) > >=20 > > I know that the DSA can do this, and I would like to know how, but I ha= ve no experience with the DSA. Also, and this I'm unsure of, can a DSA appl= ication add/remove [storage] nodes dynamically? (If so, "hot-swapably"?) --= Such a facility would be a great boon to horizontal scaling. > >=20 > > If successful, this project will be quite useful to the MUMPS community= (as a full-Ada implementation would be quite portable) -- but it could als= o help the Ada community because MUMPS is _THE_ backend language for [elect= ronic] medical records (certainly within the VA) and an Ada implementation = could provide for some good Ada interop into the system. (Thus getting Ada'= s toe in the door for non-embedded/non-device medical applications.) > >=20 > > ----- > > I'll post a gethub link to the project once I get a bit more info and a= bit more fleshed out architecturally. >=20 > whats dsa? Distributed Systems Annex -- See http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content= /standards/12rm/html/RM-E.html