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This is the TripleDB, a way of persistantly remembering "triples" of data.
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Each entry is kind of a "subject-verb-object" set. For example, some
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entries might be:
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Noun Verb Object
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=========================================
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File1 Length 1253254
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File1 MimeType text/html
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File1 Author Ralph
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File2 Length 32542
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File2 MimeType image/gif
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File2 Author Bertha
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This API is about storing, deleting, and querying such triples to a
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database. Each member of a triple can be a string, integer, or date.
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For more details, read the API, in tdbapi.h.
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Note that TripleDB now depends on the Sleepycat Berkeley DB, version
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3.1.11 or greater. For more information on that, see
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http://www.sleepycat.com.
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FAQ:
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Q: "Hey! There's no Makefile!"
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A: Yeah, yeah, I know. This is developed as part of a project at
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work, and our Makefiles are all messed up. If you have one that fits in well
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with other stuff at mozilla.org, please feel free to contribute it.
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Q: Um, so nobody else here uses this?
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A: That's right. But this maps in pretty well to RDF, I believe. I wouldn't
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be surprised if someone decides to use it to store a biggish RDF database,
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and adds it to mozilla for that purpose.
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- Terry Weissman terry@mozilla.org
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