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have some live demos and practical use examples.

What would impress _you_?

Me personally I don't think it is impressing of Google to be able to store every web page in existance and to refresh them every other minute. I just don't think that is a good way of spending electricity while we haven't figured out yet how to properly utilize the sun's energy. Google is all-knowing while burning shit-loads of coal. What's impressive about that?

Back up you claims. Have benchmarks and demos. Why say these things when there are neighther benchmarks or demos out there?

My claims are backed up by the code I've spent blood and sweat to create. Disprove me please because I need to know of scenarios that I need to solve that goes into vNext, scenarios were I'm currently not doing great.

Edit: and also: I'm reaching out to you guys not because I want a pat on the back or free PR. I'm looking for advise as to how to move from having unique tech to having a business. Is this the right forum?

I think what OP was saying is that yes, it would impress _them_, and it may impress other _people_, and impressing people is generally good for business.

compared to mongodb i have no ideas how to use your database or whatever it is. with mongodb i can just download and unstall, then copy a code snippet and run it myself.

You download it and then after some time you unstall it, got it. Well, I don't think I need to worry about MongoDB then ;)

But I know what you mean. ResinDB is a library that let's you embedd a database inside of your application. It's not a service such as MongoDB. MongoDB load and keep indices in-memory. That's the fastest type of architecture you can have if you want to answer quickly to queries. To have it all in-memory.

Well, there _is_ one faster way. It's to construct a smart index file, bitmapped, stored on a SSD, where the data is laid out in such a way that reading from it is just as fast or faster than reading from an in-memory data structure. This is what Resin achieves.

> having unique tech

You have claims and they aren't even unique.

> Disprove me please

That's not how it works. Why would I waste my time testing your software when you don't seem to possess common sense or experience? The probability that you can back up what you say is excessively low.

I'm scrolling up to see where you hit a nerve with me (or is it the other way around?). Anyway, sorry about that.

It's not about hitting a nerve, you are making extraordinary claims and for some reason you think other people should compile your source and disprove you instead of you showing any evidence in the first place. Why would you think that?

i dont even know what you are selling. show me a demonstration. can i run it in nodejs ? or sell directly to those who know exacly what you are talking about and solves their particular need.

I agree that a library such as this project is not at all as consumer-friendly as an application is. Some might even call it completely unsexy. It's a component of something bigger though, something you can indeed call into from nodejs. But that's another project.

>or sell directly to those who know exacly what you are talking about

Yeah I've been thinking I should try to get a few gigs as a speaker at tech meetups or conferences to talk about this tech but I haven't yet found a good enough story to tell.

Edit: give me one more chance to describe what Resin is.

Have you heard of SQL Server LocalDB? It's proper SQL Server, but it runs inside the process of your application. It's a library that has support for SQL, fast reads and writes. It's a database like any other databasem but it's a library.

Unfortunately (or not) SQL Server LocalDB has no support for full-text search. This is why there is a marketplace for libraries such as Lucene, who make full-text search their priority. That market place has been as fixed on Lucene, an open source free software project (LGPL), as the world has been on Google for about as long a timespan. If I want to make a dent on that market I need to be as open as Lucene and as performant.

To keep up with achademia the code base of a search engine should move fast (my view). Managed code lacks the preciseness of C++ but allow you to work fast. As hell.

So, ResinDB looks very much like a much smaller (in code size) version of Lucene. We will see the coming months or so, who moves the fastest. Me or the Lucene team.

Thank you, I think I somewhat understand now. For it to be accessible for me, I'm used to something like:

installation:

  npm install resin

usage:

  var resin = require("resin");
  var wikipedia = resin.init({file: "c:\temp\wikipedia.json", dir: "c:\resin\data\wikipedia"});
  var dogs = wikipedia.query("title: dog");
  
  // or ...
  var players = resin.init({dir: "c:\resin\data\playerData"});
  var oldPlayers = players.query("age > 30");

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