Request for DSA Tutorials & Advice

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

I have a small project which I would like to use the DSA for -- the general 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 servers.)

I know that the DSA can do this, and I would like to know how, but I have no experience with the DSA. Also, and this I'm unsure of, can a DSA application add/remove [storage] nodes dynamically? (If so, "hot-swapably"?) -- Such a facility would be a great boon to horizontal scaling.

If successful, this project will be quite useful to the MUMPS community (as a full-Ada implementation would be quite portable) -- but it could also help the Ada community because MUMPS is _THE_ backend language for [electronic] 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.)

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I'll post a gethub link to the project once I get a bit more info and a bit more fleshed out architecturally.