Writing an object graph into a no-sql database [WAS] Re: [Seaside] ESUG SummerTalk - Fuel, binary object serializer

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>> I am looking at using Riak ( http://wiki.basho.com/ ) with Pharo. When
>> storing a “business object” you  have two choices:
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>> -       Store a binary BLOB representing your object graph.
>> -       Store the object graph as JSON data.
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>> The last option essentially means you must do something similar to OR
>> mapping, so I would prefer the first option. With Riak, you will soon
>> be able to store additional indexed properties, which you later will
>> be able to query. So you store your whole business object as a BLOB,
>> together with those properties you need to query.
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> Hi guys. Sorry to come back with this old post, but now I am interested ;)
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> Right now, I have a requirement where I need to write a graph into a file. I
> am using Fuel for that. Each graph, has its own file. In the image side I
> just store the filename,  When I need to load it it reads such file and
> materialize it with Fuel. I was thinking going a step forward and use a
> key/value (a.k.a no-sql) database.
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> With Fuel, I can take a graph, and serialize directly into a ByteArray,
> hence I can take a graph to swap, I assign an ID, and and save it into the
> database. In the image side, I keep that ID. Then, when needed, I search it
> in the database and then after with that ByteArray found, I materialize it
> with Fuel.
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> So...first question is, do you think that could be faster/better than
> directly writing into a file as I am doing now?
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> Now, which are the available Pharo wrappers for no-sql databases that let me
> do that?   I would appreciate any link or documentation about them. What do
> I need to use such databases from Pharo? FFI and a library installed in my
> machine?  are there binaries for Mac OS?