Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
+Sixth Data - Data storage and computing engine
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- This is a subproject of Sixth -
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- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -it under the terms of version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public -License or later as published by the Free Software Foundation. +
- This program is free software: released under Creative Commons Zero +(CC0) license
- Program author:
- Svjatoslav Agejenko -
- Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu/ -
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu/ +
- Homepage: https://svjatoslav.eu +
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
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+Clone Git repository using command: +
++git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth-data.git +
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+- See JavaDoc.
- Implemented very simple persistent key-value map. +
- see also: OLAP cube.
- Brain appears to be natural geometrical/parallel data storage and +computational engine: + + +
- Even more awesome is that brain appears to operate and is wired as +arbitrary/variable dimensional structure: +https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/21/is-there-a-multidimensional-mathematical-world-hidden-in-the-brains-computation/ + +
- On top of this, this multidimensional space that brain represents +has dynamic/variable resolution/density: + + +
- Such properties allow parallel Geometrical computation and +beautifully fits CM-1 Connection Machine architecture (for extra +hardware accelerated solution). +
- Hypercube is quite general purpose data structure that naturally +encapsulates wide variety data and problems. + +
- Nicely captures apparent properties of the brain. + +
- Naturally supports distributed and parallel geometrical data storage +and computation. + +
- Dedicated hardware like CM-1 can be built around hypercube concept +that results in data, computation process and hardware, all +beautifully fitting together while complementing each other +strengths. + +
- Hypercube stored data (and computation process) has geometry by its +nature and should fit nicely with "3D first" user interface ideology +of the parent Sixth project. +
- Object or database table row is a point in hypercube arbitrary +dimensional space. Each object member variable or database table +column can be mapped to its own dimension in hypercube. That is: if +class declares 4 variables for an object, then corresponding object +can be stored as a single point inside 4 dimensional +hypercube. Variable values translate to point coordinates in that +hypercube. That is: numbers and string can be translated to linear +value that can be used as a coordinate along particular dimension. + +
- Each object class or database table declares its own hypercube that +contain instances (objects) of that class or rows of a table. +
- Books. +
- Authors. +
- Effort: Amount of time contributed by every author to every book +that he/she wrote. +
- X: Book +
- Y: Author +
- Z: Effort +
- More or less defined Vision / goal. + +
- Collected some inspiring ideas. + +
- Implemented very simple persistent key-value map.
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- Long term goal is to use it as a backing storage engine and +implement more advanced features on top of this via layered +architecture. +
+ - flexible user interface building for interacting with different data
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- Glamorous Toolkit
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- Moldable development environment. It is a live notebook. It is a +flexible search interface. It is a fancy code editor. It is a +software analysis platform. It is a data visualization engine. All +in one. +
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+ - Glamorous Toolkit
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- Array Databases: Concepts, Standards, Implementations + +
- TileDB
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- Analyze and share complex multi-dimensional data at scale +
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+ - CM-1 Connection Machine + +
- Lisp-Stat: An environment for Statistical Computing +
- ChrysaLisp
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- Assembler/C-Script/Lisp 64 bit, MIMD, multi CPU, multi threaded, +multi core, multi user Parallel OS. With GUI, Terminal, OO +Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter, +Debugger, and more… +
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- Completely distributed smalltalk based computing +system. +
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+ - http://phantomos.org/
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- Programs run forever. System crash or reboot does not destroy +state of running program. +
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+ - Magma
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- Multi-user object database for Squeak +
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+ - TAOS
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- Completely distributed operating system/virtual machine: +
+ - GRAKN.AI
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- database in the form of a knowledge graph that uses machine +reasoning to simplify data processing challenges for AI +applications. https://grakn.ai/ +
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+ - Prolog programming language +
1 General
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1.1 Source code
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2 Vision / goal
++Provide hackable, versioned, optimized, distributed, geometrical, +arbitrary dimensional (hypercube based) data storage and computation +engine (as inspired by the brain) for general purpose visual computing +environment called Sixth. +
-1 Current status
-+Because Lisp is hackable self defined programmable programming +language it would be used to provide imperative programming support. +
+3 Inspiration
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3.1 Brain
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3.2 CM-1 Connection Machine
++https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine +
+ ++Massively parallel (thousands of CPUs) connected via +machine's internal 12-dimensional hypercube network allows to +efficiently simulate arbitrary dimensional hypercube and network +topology between computational units. So that when we are +solving/simulating for example 5 dimensional problem, we can arrange +computational units into virtual 5D network. See: +http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/theory/cm_txts/di-ch2.html +
-Long term goal is to implement more advanced features on top of this. +we can pre-distribute data across computation units and perform +parallel geometrical computation.
4 Reasons for hypercube as a so called first class citizen
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5 Geometrical computation idea
+5.1 Distributed computation and data storage
++Lots of problems can be translated to geometry (use any shapes and as +many dimensions as you need). Solution(s) to such problems could be +then found via geometrical search/comparison/lookup results. As a +bonus, such geometrical data storage AND computation can be +naturally made in parallel and distributed. +
+ ++Learning means building/updating/re-balancing the model (the hard +part). Question answering is making (relatively simple) lookups +(geometrical queries) against the model. +
+5.2 Mapping hypercube to object-oriented model and relational database
++Object oriented programming is inspired by the way human mind +operates. It allows programmer to express ideas to computer in a more +human-like terms. +
+ ++It is actually also possible to map object model and relational +database to geometrical hyperspace: +
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5.3 Mapping entity relations in hypercube
++Consider we want to create database of: +
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+Information above can be represented as 3D cube where dimensions are: +
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+Points in that cube would nicely capture many to many relations +between authors and the books. +
+6 Current status
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7 See also
++Interesting or competing projects with good ideas: +
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7.1 Computation on multi dimensional data
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7.2 Distributed, reliable, parallel computing systems
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7.3 Rules based machine reasoning
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