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Suggestion: you might want to put terms "opensource" and "Apache license" on homepage somewhere (and a link to sources). From your comment I knew MapDB was opensource and I still spent a few minutes before finding the sources and license on github. It looks almost as if you want to stay "one-man-show". :)

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I'll promote your project then - http://www.mapdb.org/ - this kind of "competition" is what makes OSS so right

Good suggestions, I will do that.

I do not mention name or url, since it feels bit like a spam. My project is (hopefully one day will be) competition to Redis.

Great, wish you well!

Great project. I enjoyed reading over your code for Volumes and Stores. I have worked on similar things in Go to support B+Trees. Finding the right level of abstraction is difficult for those pieces and I am never sure that I have found it.

> I do not mention name or url, since it feels bit like a spam.

FWIW, the culture here at HN has always been more accepting of a certain amount of self-promotion. After all, it started as "Startup News" and many of the users here are (or have been, or will be) startup founders, and everybody understands the desire / need to get the word out about your project(s).

Yeah, there's a line, and it is possible to cross it, but I don't think you'll find that people mind if you just post a link and the name of your project here and there.

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