MECHENG401:ResearchDatabases

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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.

MECHENG401:Meetings:19March

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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