Over the holiday break, I decided to dust off the Pilaster document database and bring it up to some acceptable level of stability.
As it stands now, Pilaster is a document database that provides similar capabilities to that of MongoDB. It is nowhere near as performant as MongoDB -- then again, it's written in pure PHP and does not require a separate application.
I figured it would be useful for smaller system or for applications running on hosted platforms.
In the backend, it uses Lucene (or, rather Zend's port of Lucene) to provide a high(-ish) performance datastore. You can search it using either name/value arrays or search strings. Yes, search strings are the database's query language. Weird... I know.
To test it out (and contribute, if you'd like), take a look at the Git repository here:
http://github.com/technosophos/Pilaster
If you want to start with a build of it, you can download 2.0-alpha1 (or whatever today's latest version is) by going here:
http://github.com/technosophos/Pilaster/downloads
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When I initially developed Pilaster, it was basically a form of the Sinciput and Rhizome projects. It worked, but it was very tied to the way those systems used data. That was Pilaster 1.x.
As I took a fresh look at Pilaster in December, I realized that I could make it much more generic -- in short, I could make it work with native data structures! With minimal refactoring, I changed the entire Pilaster data model.
I decided that would be Pilaster 2.x.
Pilaster is not quite stable. The unit tests for the main public API all pass. However, the low-level driver is not complete. Import and export still need to be added. I am also uncertain as to how stable the Zend index really is. Your testing can help me discover what works and what doesn't.
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