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- Architecture,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Technology,
- Runtimes,
- Performance & Scalability,
- Dynamic Languages,
- Ruby on Rails
In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about working on GemStone's MagLev, a Ruby implementation built on the GemStone S64 VM. Avi explains the reasons for MagLev, the merits of GemStone's persistence and distribution features, and the future with multiple Ruby implementations.
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By Avi Bryant
on Jun 13, 2008,

- Java
- Topics
- Data Access
In this virtual panel, the editors of InfoQ.com (Floyd Marinescu) and ODBMS.org (Roberto V. Zicari) asked a group of leading persistence solution architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the Java community.
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By Mike Keith, Ted Neward, Carl Rosenberger, Craig Russell
on Mar 06, 2008,
News about Object Databases
- .NET,
- Java
- Topics
- Release,
- Data Access
McObject® has released Perst™ version 3.0, a major upgrade of its open source, object-oriented embedded database system. Persist is dual licensed (commerical and GPL), allowing it to be used freely in non-commercial applications.
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By Ian Roughley
on Jun 17, 2008,
- Architecture,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Runtimes,
- Language,
- Performance & Scalability,
- Database Design,
- Dynamic Languages,
- Ruby on Rails
OODB vendor Gemstone works on a Ruby VM called MagLev. Working with Seaside's and DabbleDB's Avi Bryant, Gemstone bases the Ruby runtime on their Smalltalk VM to offer performance and powerful persistence features. We talked to Avi Bryant and Gemstone's Bob Walker about the technology behind MagLev and the plans for it.
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By Werner Schuster
on Apr 30, 2008,
- .NET,
- Java
- Topics
- Data Access
db4o has been growing fast lately, having recently released v7.0 beta of their flagship db4o embedded OODBMS, and claiming over 30,000 deployments of their open source ODBMS. Is this a sign of changing times reflecting the ODBMS landscape?
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By Alexander Olaru
on Dec 21, 2007,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Object Oriented Design,
- Data Access,
- JRuby,
- Dynamic Languages
Gemstone is working on Ruby support for their Object Database products, starting off with JRuby. We talked to Alan McKean from Gemstone about what's to come, technical details and Gemstone's plans with Rubinius.
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By Werner Schuster
on Aug 06, 2007,