Sounds like a distributed version of PBXT:
http://www.primebase.org/download/pbxt_white_paper.pdf
Is this what you have in mind? If so, our minds aren't all that far
apart.

Paul

--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Jim Starkey <jstarkey@...>
wrote:

>
> Rocky Castaneda wrote:
> > Is this a combined recipe of MySQL and FirebirdSQL?
> >
> > I hope you'll setup many chain of stores for this recipe.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Jim Starkey <jstarkey@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> For those of you who didn't hear, today is my last day at

MySQL, and

> >> Monday will be my first day as Chief cook, CEO, and bottle

washer of

> >> NimbusDB, Inc., a software start up so young it doesn't exist

yet.

> >>
> >> Nimbus, as the name hopefully suggests, is a relational /

semantic

> >> database system designed to run on clouds. It is a radical re-

invention

> >> of database technology, breaking with 30 years of disk-based
> >> technology. Nimbus is designed to scale to almost arbitrary

capacity by

> >> simply plugging in more computers. It is also software and

hardware

> >> fault tolerant, including software upgrades. It's also an idea

that's

> >> been kicking around my brain for the last six months that needed

to get

> >> lose to the real world.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> No, it isn't remotely similar to either. For example, nodes that

do SQL

> don't do disk I/O, nodes that do disk I/O don't do SQL, and all

files

> are written once and never updated.
>
> A cloud is a new an different platform, though you wouldn't know it

to

> listen to pundits. In started programming in the era of batch with

card

> decks and I/O windows, and have observed the following:
>
> * When timesharing was invented, the batch guys considered it a
> special case of remote job entry
> * When departmental computing (i.e. VAXes) came around, the
> timesharing guys considered it just timesharing on a different scale
> * When client/server came done the pick, the departmental

computing

> uys considered a PC just a special case of a smart terminal
> * When the Internet showed up, the client/server guys considered

the

> Internet a special case of a LAN
> * As clouds arrive, most every one considers them either as

clusters

> or warty SMP machines.
>
> Nimbus is a total break from 30 years of continuous evolution of
> disk-based database system. Pages: Just say no.
>
> I'm also re-thinking other quaint holdovers from the past:
>
> * Nimbus implements the semantic data model where on table can

be

> defined to "extend" another. A record inserted in extended table

is

> also visible in the parent table, albeit with fewer attributes
> * Nimbus supports unbounded types. Fields can be declared as

type

> "string" or "number" rather than "varchar(37)" or "short int".
> * Nimbus supports UTF8, period. Character set conversion is a

client

> issue. It does, of course, support collations.
> * Nimbus will support an open ended set of aggregating

interfaces,

> so a single round trip to the server can return the results of

many

> queries
>