Re: Any body here knows the design model of The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia?

joel garry wrote:
> On Aug 1, 9:27 am, "John Ruan" <rds1..._at_sh163.net> wrote:
>> I am interested in its database model design in Oracle.
>>
>> Anybody has any clues?
>>
>> http://oracleofbacon.org/
>
> Looks like they have a means of asking questions in a comment link.
> Since they don't say, my first thought is they are using an open
> source or homebrew db rather than Oracle, and just call it the oracle,
> just as some other things out there are called oracle that have
> nothing to do with Oracle. But until they say, we don't know. They
> do say they download flat files and load them into a database, so I'd
> wildly speculate they have some sort of combined hierarchical/network
> design, given the queries allowed.
>

From the 'How It Works'-page:
"The database server runs under Linux on a 1.8GHz Opteron, consuming about 220MB of RAM, most of which is used for the results cache." So: no, I don't think it runs on Oracle...

The original (1996) oracle-of-bacon used the ADAMS OODBMS: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~adams/
The idea of 'Bacon-numbering' is "stolen" from mathematician Paul Erdos.

-- 
Jeroen