[okfn-discuss] [okfn-coord] question from the Twitter gallery about Open Data Grid

Sun Oct 3 13:36:22 UTC 2010

Rufus, this is all good to hear; i took coord out of the cc.
As it clearly is of quite general interest!

>> * mongodb + gridfs:
>> <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-help/2010-June/000662.html>
>> * riak<http://www.basho.com/Riak.html>  - could be used similar to mongodb
>> * Eucalytus Walrus:<http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusStorage_v1.4>
>>
>> I think investigating these other alternatives would be a better use
>> of people's time right now [than any more work on/with Tahoe].
>
>> <http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Distributed_Storage/>

I still wonder if there are other similar looking efforts that OKF could 
plug into, that may be further along. I'd like to know (and put random 
people who might know, into the CC.)

Experiments are fun and are why we are all here. But!
There's a lot of money to be saved and benefit to be had in putting this 
together (e.g. at level of public administrations, mapping agencies, 
etc). And others are making business investments in this sort of thing 
(SimpleGeo come to mind). I wonder how much illumination can come via 
OKF from a few hours evaluation, vs a bit more focus on testing things 
that come from others, affiliations, etc.

jo
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