Re: database backend for GNATS

[Mel Hatzis]

Thanks for your response.

I've had a little interest...based on my analysis of our web
server logs...but nowhere near as much as I was hoping. :-)

The SQL backend has actually turned out to be extremely useful.
Not only have we managed to perform some configuration changes
that would otherwise have been almost impossible, but we've
leveraged the work to setup views into our PR datastore,
allowing external vendors to access subsets of our PR data.

We're also about to setup a search engine (UltraSeek) which has
an Oracle interface, to provide token based searching of our
PR datastore. This will significantly enhance our PR search
capability by essentially providing us with a way to query across
all our multitext fields in next to no time.

I'll be eagerly awaiting your review.

Thanks again.

-Mel

On 03/24/2004 12:20 AM, Yngve Svendsen submitted:
> Mel,
>
> just so you don't lose heart from the lack of response.
>
> This looks extremely useful and is something I have been wanting for a 
> long time. Unfortunately, I am too tied up at the moment to be able to 
> look at this as closely as it deserves. I hope to be able to play with 
> it closer to summer.
>
> Again, thanks for what is likely to be the most important GNATS 
> development for a very long time.
>
> - Yngve
>
>
> Mel Hatzis wrote:
>
> > I've been working on extending GNATS to support various backend
> > datastores. It is my hope that this work can be rolled into
> > (or perhaps become the basis for) GNATS 4.1 or whatever the next
> > release may be (GNATS 5.0?).
> >
> > To date, I have successfully completed the implementation
> > of a version of GNATS which can be configured to run with
> > an Oracle backend. I have managed to roll this out at the
> > company where I work where it has met with much success.
> >
> > If you are interested in evaluating this work, you can download
> > it (and review the related documentation) from:
> >
> >     http://professional.juniper.net/gnats/
> >
> > The approach I've taken is to separate out all the functionality
> > associated with access to the GNATS PR data repository into
> > a separate library....essentially creating a clean interface
> > between GNATS and it's data store. The front-end utilities
> > and applications such as Gnatsweb are unaffected...they
> > continue to work exactly the same.
> >
> > Currently, there are two back ends: the standard flat-file
> > repository, and an Oracle-based backend. We have been using
> > the Oracle version at Juniper for six months, with tens of
> > thousands of PRs and hundreds of users.
> >
> > The work is based on a snapshot of the 4.0 beta 2 source, though
> > all subsequent patches have been incorporated...so all the work
> > that went into GNATS 4.0 is included. As of today, all patches to
> > the CVS version of GNATS have been included in this project.
> >
> > It is my hope that this work will be extended to support
> > additional SQL datastores such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
> > I believe that this could now be accomplished without
> > expending a great deal of effort. I'm willing to provide
> > a template to anyone interested in pursuing this endevour
> > to get this work underway.
> >
> > --
> > Mel Hatzis
> >
> >
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