On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:40:45 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Any other innovative languages, databases, etc? Something that one could
> learn cool new ideas from by just reading the documentation (assuming
> documentation exists ;-)?

Well, it didn't start as open source, but now under the GPL (well, dual-
licensed) is Novell's FLAIM database.  I don't know of any other database 
like it.

http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?flaim

The successor, x-flaim is something of a hybrid of XML and the older 
FLAIM engine.  Very high scalability and fast searches; it's used as the 
backend data store for eDirectory, GroupWise, and iFolder (iFolder being 
open sourced is why FLAIM was).

There aren't many people who understand it very thoroughly (and I'm not 
one of them).

Jim

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