Evergreen ODB

Brent Simmons: “And: different syncing systems might need different properties, and I don’t really want to create an uber-schema which is the union of all of these. (And I don’t want to create a Feed protocol, because Set is then impossible.)”

I too am working on an RSS reader for Mac and iOS but I’ve chosen to make what Brent refers to as an uber-schema. We’ll see how it works. I think it’s going to be fine but I’m really curious to watch what Brent’s ODB turns into.

His idea of a more document centric storage mechanism is probably going to be really nice for an RSS reader. It doesn’t need to keep data around forever and requires a very small amount of data to work well.

There are, of course, document — NoSQL — databases readily available. The first one that comes to mind is CouchBase Lite.