Bug#543648: ITP: prophet -- distributed database system
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christine Spang <christine@debian.org>
* Package name : prophet
Version : 0.70
Upstream Author : Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>
* URL : http://syncwith.us/
* License : Perl (Artistic | GPL-1+)
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : distributed, peer to peer replicated database system
Prophet is a new kind of database designed for the post Web-2.0 world.
It's made to let you collaborate with your friends and coworkers without
needing any kind of special server or internet provider.
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Prophet's buzzword-laden pitch reads something like this:
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A grounded, semirelational, peer to peer replicated, disconnected,
versioned, property database with self-healing conflict resolution.
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What that really means is that Prophet keeps your data in your control,
not on a server in a cloud, is designed for online and offline use,
syncs changes peer to peer in any way you can think of, and has a
pluggable conflict resolution system that allows application writers to
decide how to resolve conflicts during synchronization, using Prophet's
algorithm or any other.
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If you're not a programmer, you likely want an end-user application
build on top of Prophet, rather than this package.
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