Simon Willison’s Weblog

Tokyo Cabinet: Beyond Key-Value Store. Useful overview of Yet Another Scalable Key Value Store. Interesting points: multiple backends (hash table, B-Tree, in memory, on disk), a “table” engine which enables more advanced queries, a network server that supports HTTP, memcached or its own binary protocol and the ability to extend the engine with Lua scripts.

# 14th February 2009, 11:17 am / keyvaluepairs, tokyocabinet, http, memcached, lua, hash, databases

hash. Douglas Crockford: “Any HTML tag that accepts a src= or href= attribute should also be allowed to take a hash= attribute”—to protect against file tampering and (more importantly) provide a truly robust caching mechanism.

# 30th March 2008, 6:34 pm / hash, sha1, douglas-crockford, html, caching