[bind10-dev] DataDraw

[Michael Graff]

I wonder if this would be useful for bind10 work?



DataDraw is an ultra-fast persistent database for high performance
programs
written in C.  It's so fast that many programs keep all their data in a
DataDraw database, even while being manipulated in inner loops of
compute
intensive applications.  DataDraw databases are compiled, and directly
link
into your C programs.  DataDraw databases are resident in memory, making
data
manipulation even faster than if they were stored in native C data
structures
(really).

DataDraw databases can be persistent.  Modifications to persistent data
are
written to disk as they are made, which of course dramatically slows
write
times.  However, DataDraw databases can also be volatile.  Volatile
databases
exist only in memory, and only for the duration that your program needs
it.
Volatile databases can be directly manipulated faster than C structures,
since
data is better organized in memory to optimize cache performance

DataDraw supports modular design.  An application can have one or more
common
persistent databases, and multiple volatile databases to support various
tools'
data structures.  Classes in a tool's database can extend classes in the
common
database.

DataDraw is also 64-bit optimized, allowing programs to run much faster
and in
less memory than standard C programs using 64-bit pointers.  This is
because
DataDraw databases supports over 4 billion objects of a given class with
32-bit
object references.