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Avi Bryant on MagLev and GemStone

Community
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.

Java Object Persistence: State of the Union

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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.

News about Object Databases

Perst Embedded Database Releases Version 3.0

Community
.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.

MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM

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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.

DB40 v7 and Increasing Popularity of ODBMS

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.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?

Gemstone OODB to support JRuby, Rubinius

Community
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.