MECHENG401:ResearchDatabases
TODO
- Make final case for Gears v AIR and present it to stakeholders
 - Start looking at possible database solutions
- Store text, images
 - Relational?
 - Ability to deal with large datasets
 - Ability to locally cache portions of the data
 - Ability to merge changes back in
 - Frameworks for web based interaction with the DB
 
 
- Information on SQLite.
 - Server Side database - Incremental backups.
 
More
These are further questions raised by Gerald after the meeting on 31 March:
- What server side DBs can you use with Google Gears and SQLite
 - What support/technology exists to do this DB-to-DB communication
 - What network protocol does Gears use to send SQL queries? ODBc/JDBC drivers?
 - Has any work been done on synchronisation between client and server?
 
- There will be a meeting of SE students with Gerald to discuss these things and more on Thursday. Time and venue TBA