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#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# What is KDI?
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------

KDI started as a project at Kosmix.  It is meant to provide a common
interface between applications with structured external data needs and
the various implementations that may fulfill those needs.  The
interface is meant to act like a simplified database connector.

The KDI project also provides a number of implementations of the
interface.  These range in sophistication from a single-threaded table
stored entirely in memory to a multi-user, distributed table inspired
by Google's BigTable.

The interface was designed with ease of use as a major goal.  Clean,
safe implementation is also emphasized.  Performance is also
important, but definitely secondary to the other goals.  It is easier
to optimize a clean design once the whole system is in view than it is
to build a clean system out of independently optimized components.

KDI is a placeholder name.  It's short for Kosmix Data Interface,
which is non-so-snazzy.


#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Does it work?
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is a work in progress.  This initial release is v0.0.  It
probably won't even compile on your machine.  It has been developed
in-house at Kosmix on a specific machine configuration.  At Kosmix,
we've used to to store a few TB of data distributed across a cluster
of machines, but there are no guarantees that KDI is ready to do that
for anyone else.  In fact, it's not even ready for us.

The purpose of this release is to make the project open source to
allow collaboration with outside developers.


#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# How do I build it?
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------

KDI has been built on Fedora Core 5 Linux running on x86_64 boxes.
We've also done a test build on Fedora Core 9 on the same hardware.

For build tools we've used:

   Tool           Versions tried
   -------------- -------------------
   GCC            4.1.1, 4.3.0
   GNU make       3.80, 3.81
   Python         2.4.3, 2.5.1

The project uses some external libraries:

   Library        Versions tried      Url
   -------------- ------------------- -------------------------
   Boost          1.34.1, 1.35.0      http://www.boost.org/
   ICE            3.2.1               http://www.zeroc.com/
   expat          1.95.8, 2.0.1
   zlib           1.2.3

In addition, there are Python bindings for KDI.  They have been tested
with Python 2.4.3 and Python 2.5.1.

The build script is a somewhat magical collection of Makefiles.  To
build, go to the root level of the distribution tree (the one
containing Makefile) and type "make".  Or if you have multiple cores
you can do a parallel build with "make -j N" where N is the number of
parallel jobs you'd like.  And hey, it may even work.  Good luck!

There are other make targets:

   make all          -- build everything, but don't install (default)
   make install      -- build and install (copy) to ./bin and ./lib
   make syminstall   -- build and install (symlink) to ./bin and ./lib
   make unittest     -- build and run unit tests

There are also build variants:

   make VARIANT=release [targets]   -- turn on optimizer (default)
   make VARIANT=debug [targets]     -- make a debug build

Built files go into ./build.  Everything in this directory can be
generated from source and may be safely deleted.


#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# How do I run it?
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------

You got it to build?  Wow!

After you "make install" or "make syminstall", you'll have some
binaries in your ./bin directory and shared libraries in your ./lib
directory.  Put the lib directory is in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH (though
the binaries do have embedded paths back to their ./build directory
locations if you still have that around).

There are 4 programs:

   kdiLoad   	   -- Load cells into a KDI table
   kdiScan   	   -- Read cells from a KDI table
   kdiErase  	   -- Erase cells from a KDI table
   kdiNetServer    -- Host a networked KDI table

KDI tables are referred to by URI.  The URI scheme is used to select
the KDI implementation.  There are a few provided KDI schemes:

   mem:            -- in-memory read/write table
   local:          -- read/write table on local disk
   kdi:            -- read/write table hosted on a networked server

In addition, there are a couple of prefix schemes:

   sync            -- allow multiple threads to use the same table
                      in a synchronized way
   meta            -- use a meta table to present a larger logical table

At some point I'll need to put together some usage examples and
documentation.  In the mean time, RTFS!  :)


#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Known issues
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------

2008-07-09: The warp/plugin unit test fails when using Boost 1.35.
This is a bug in Boost:
  http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1723
Also see:
  http://groups.google.com/group/boost-list/browse_thread/thread/4bb3cc616d41ce01/c6ed8bdc48e081cc?lnk=raot

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