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[MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was amused by this at first but it would be useful to have an easier way
to create storage engines to remote data sources. There are at least 3
levels of complexity (3 engines) that can be provided:
1) read only (SELECT only)
2) read-write, auto-commit
3) read-write, multi-statement transactions

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Kim!
>
> On Oct 02, Kim Ebert wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > I wanted to share the beginnings of a project.
> >
> > This is a Python Storage Engine. The idea is to plumb in the necessary C
> > to Python calls to allow a storage engine to be written in Python
> > instead of C or C++. This may be valuable to those who want to prototype
>
> That would be very cool!
> If you have any questions about the storage engine API - don't hesitate to
> ask!
>
> > a database engine in Python, or if the performance is sufficient for the
> > use case, for production. I haven't taken things to far yet, but I think
> > it gives a rough idea of how to move forward with adding the other calls.
> > In my particular case I'm using it to prototype connecting to a search
> > API, like Solr, to provide an SQL like interface.
> >
> > I did have a quick question. I want to license it as a more permissive
> > license, but since I'm using the example engine, does that mean that I
> > need to use the GPL license? Or can I go with the more permissive
> > MIT-new license?
> >
> > https://github.com/perfectsearch/mariadb-plugin-python-engine
>
> MariaDB is GPLv2, so you should use a GPLv2 compatible license.
> MIT license seems to be compatible with GPLv2, but IANAL.
>
> Regards,
> Sergei
>
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