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198 <div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><h1 class="title">Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction</h1>
201 <li>This is a subproject of <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth/doc/index.html">Sixth</a>
204 <li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth-data.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">download latest snapshot</a>
207 <li>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
208 it under the terms of version 3 of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public
209 License</a> or later as published by the Free Software Foundation.
214 <li>Svjatoslav Agejenko
216 <li>Homepage: <a href="http://svjatoslav.eu">http://svjatoslav.eu</a>
218 <li>Email: <a href="mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu">mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu</a>
223 <li><a href="http://svjatoslav.eu/programs.jsp">other applications hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a>
228 <div id="outline-container-sec-1" class="outline-2">
229 <h2 id="sec-1"><a id="ID-f6764282-a6f6-44e6-8716-b428074dd093" name="ID-f6764282-a6f6-44e6-8716-b428074dd093"></a><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Vision / goal</h2>
230 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
232 Provide versioned, clustered, flexible, distributed, multi-dimensional
233 data storage engine for the <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth/doc/index.html">Sixth computation engine</a>.
237 <li>Speaking of traditional relational database and object oriented
238 business applications:
240 <li>I hate object-relational impedance mismatch.
243 <li>I don't like to convert data between persistent database and
244 runtime objects for every transaction. How about creating united
245 database/computation engine instead to:
247 <li>Eliminate constant moving and converting of data between 2 systems.
249 <li>Abstract away difference between RAM VS persistent storage. Let
250 the system decide at runtime which data to keep in what kind of
260 <div id="outline-container-sec-1-1" class="outline-3">
261 <h3 id="sec-1-1"><span class="section-number-3">1.1</span> Inspiration</h3>
262 <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-1-1">
264 <li>Relational databases:
268 <li>Indexable / Quickly searchable.
273 <li>Git (version control system)
277 <li>Branchable / mergeable.
279 <li>Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication.
281 <li>(Git as a database:
282 <a href="https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/">https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/</a> )
287 <li>Brain (appears to have more than 3D dimensional design. Food for
290 <li><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/21/is-there-a-multidimensional-mathematical-world-hidden-in-the-brains-computation/">https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/21/is-there-a-multidimensional-mathematical-world-hidden-in-the-brains-computation/</a>
292 <li>From there comes following idea: Maybe every problem can be
293 translated to geometry (use any shapes and as many dimensions as
294 you need). Solution(s) to such problems would then appear as
295 relatively simple search/comparison/lookup results. As a bonus,
296 such geometrical *data storage* AND *computation* can be
297 naturally made in *parallel* and *distributed*. That's what
298 neurons in the brain appear to be doing ! :) . Learning means
299 building/updating the model (the hard part). Question answering
300 is making (relatively simple) lookups (geometrical queries)
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313 <h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Current status</h2>
314 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
316 <li>More or less defined <a href="#sec-1">Vision / goal</a>.
319 <li>Implemented very simple persistent key-value map.
321 <li>Long term goal is to use it as a backing storage engine and
322 implement more advanced features on top of this.
330 <div id="outline-container-sec-3" class="outline-2">
331 <h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> <span class="label label-primary TODO">TODO</span> </h2>
332 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
334 <li>check out GRAKN.AI: database in the form of a knowledge graph that
335 uses machine reasoning to simplify data processing challenges for AI
338 <li><a href="https://grakn.ai/">https://grakn.ai/</a>
345 <li><a href="http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665">http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665</a>
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355 <li><a href="#sec-1">1. Vision / goal</a>
357 <li><a href="#sec-1-1">1.1. Inspiration</a></li>
360 <li><a href="#sec-2">2. Current status</a></li>
361 <li><a href="#sec-3">3. </a></li>
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367 <div><p class="author">Author: Svjatoslav Agejenko</p>
368 <p class="date">Created: 2017-07-07 Fri 00:15</p>
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