- Periodic update announcements here.
- Querying quote entries: use the database and the index_headwords index
- You want to host a repilica and make things faster for folks in your geographical area? Just open an issue in this project and let us know.
- Ahmedabad, IN http://vedavaapi.org:5984/quote_db__sa/_all_docs
- Bay area, USA (dev machine, unstable) http://vvasuki.hopto.org:5984/quote_db__sa/_all_docs
- Use Nosql rather than a relational database as the primary canonical database.
- Reasons (from here ):
- The need to develop with agility
- Simplicity (less need to join n tables)
- Flexibility (schema can easily be changed)
- distributed nature: ability to operate at any scale.
- Database copies can sync with each other easily - no centralization is good.
- The need to develop with agility
- Comparison here .
- Alternatives for mobile offline use:
- Couchbase database, since it can be used in many mobile OS-s.
- Comparison with mongodb: on cb site.
- Realm.io - good for storing plain Java objects via JSON.
- Google Firebase for key-value storage - 1GB free.
- Couchbase database, since it can be used in many mobile OS-s.
- Reasons (from here ):
- Scala for the ingestion libraries (same justification as expressed here ).
See indic-transliteration/README for the following info: