Database Management for Smalltalk

Transparent Persistence

+ Transaction Processing…

Smalltalk is pure object-oriented programming for complex business and technical applications, but the benefits of this can be lost in the well-known ‘impedance mismatch’ with relational databases.

The VOSS virtual object storage system extends Instantiations Inc. Smalltalk VAST Platform with integrated database management, providing transparent multi-user access and transaction processing of persistent, versioned, Smalltalk objects directly accessible by normal programming, with efficient persistent Btree collection classes, including the multi-key/multi-value/key-set VirtualDictionarySet for aggregation and query-building.

  • Multi-process, multi-machine, transactional access to distributed objects
  • ACID transactions with two-phase commit, logging and rollforward crash recovery
  • Persist clustered complexes of any Smalltalk classes except block closures
  • Historical object versioning, MVRC repeatable read, MVCC concurrency control
  • Automatic object locking with transaction rollback & retry on deadlock time-out
  • Automatic change detection, no lock conflicts with sub-transactions, short read-locks
  • Concurrent Multi-key/multi-value/key-set Btree VirtualDictionarySet w/ query-building
  • Continuation Transactions manage alternative futures for design or what-if
  • Long Continuation Transactions may be persisted prior to ultimate commit/rollback
  • Distributed copying, parented copying, identity-exchange, checkout, read-only etc
  • Concurrent variable-rate incremental foreground & background garbage collection
  • The garbage collector will also trace and report references to selected objects
  • snapshot hot backup of the set of distributed virtual spaces
  • Terabyte 64-bit object id and addressing default
  • Dual Licensing - Open Source GPLv3 and/or Supported Commercial Licence

…Seamless Smalltalk Solutions Download VOSS



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Mon 20th Jun 2022   03:06 PM
posted by John Clapperton

VOSS 3.150.18 for VAST Platform 11.0.0 supports Unicode keys in the concurrent Btree VOhcVirtualDictionary, with transparent conversion of existing single-process VirtualDictionary instances within VirtualDictionarySet etc.

Email me at jc@logicarts.com if you are interested in this.

John

Wed 13th Sep 2017   02:09 PM
posted by John Clapperton

StsDebugger is incompatible with VOSS, causing random image hangs. These are probably caused by the tool tip hovering over a variable which references a VORef proxy, causing the tooltip process to wait indefinitely at the VOStorageManager’s process mutual exclusion shell (VOSMShell). It is recommended therefore to use DbgDebugger. Evaluate the following statement before a debugging session:

System startUpClass debuggerClass: DbgDebugger.

Sat 6th Aug 2011   11:08 AM
posted by John Clapperton

Save time! If you have any questions whilst evaluating VOSS for the first time, contact me by email: jc@logicarts.com  I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

John



 

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