NAME

Prophet - A distributed database system

VERSION

version 0.751

DESCRIPTION

Prophet is a distributed database system designed for small to medium scale social database applications. Our early targets include things such as bug tracking.

Design goals

• Arbitrary record schema
• Replication
• Disconnected operation
• Peer to peer synchronization

Design constraints

• Scaling

  We don't currently intend for the first implementation of Prophet to scale to databases with millions of rows or hundreds of concurrent users. There's nothing that makes the design infeasible, but the infrastructure necessary for such a system will...needlessly hamstring it.

AUTHORS

• Jesse Vincent jesse@bestpractical.com
• Chia-Liang Kao clkao@bestpractical.com
• Christine Spang christine@spang.cc

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2009 by Best Practical Solutions.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

You can make new bug reports, and view existing ones, through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Prophet.

CONTRIBUTORS

• Alex Vandiver alexmv@bestpractical.com
• Casey West casey@geeknest.com
• Cyril Brulebois kibi@debian.org
• Florian Ragwitz rafl@debian.org
• Ioan Rogers ioanr@cpan.org
• Jonas Smedegaard dr@jones.dk
• Kevin Falcone falcone@bestpractical.com
• Lance Wicks lw@judocoach.com
• Nelson Elhage nelhage@mit.edu
• Pedro Melo melo@simplicidade.org
• Rob Hoelz rob@hoelz.ro
• Ruslan Zakirov ruz@bestpractical.com
• Shawn M Moore sartak@bestpractical.com
• Simon Wistow simon@thegestalt.org
• Stephane Alnet stephane@shimaore.net
• Unknown user nobody@localhost
• Yanick Champoux yanick@babyl.dyndns.org
• franck cuny franck@lumberjaph.net
• robertkrimen robertkrimen@gmail.com
• sunnavy sunnavy@bestpractical.com