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1# NAME
2
3Prophet - A distributed database system
4
5# VERSION
6
7version 0.751
8
9# DESCRIPTION
10
11Prophet is a distributed database system designed for small to medium scale
12social database applications. Our early targets include things such as bug
13tracking.
14
15## Design goals
16
17- Arbitrary record schema
18- Replication
19- Disconnected operation
20- Peer to peer synchronization
21
22## Design constraints
23
24- Scaling
25
26 We don't currently intend for the first implementation of Prophet to scale to
27 databases with millions of rows or hundreds of concurrent users. There's
28 nothing that makes the design infeasible, but the infrastructure necessary for
29 such a system will...needlessly hamstring it.
30
31# AUTHORS
32
33- Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>
34- Chia-Liang Kao <clkao@bestpractical.com>
35- Christine Spang <christine@spang.cc>
36
37# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
38
39This software is Copyright (c) 2009 by Best Practical Solutions.
40
41This is free software, licensed under:
42
43 The MIT (X11) License
44
45# BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
46
47You can make new bug reports, and view existing ones, through the
48web interface at [https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Prophet](https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Prophet).
49
50# CONTRIBUTORS
51
52- Alex Vandiver <alexmv@bestpractical.com>
53- Casey West <casey@geeknest.com>
54- Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
55- Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
56- Ioan Rogers <ioanr@cpan.org>
57- Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
58- Kevin Falcone <falcone@bestpractical.com>
59- Lance Wicks <lw@judocoach.com>
60- Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
61- Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
62- Rob Hoelz <rob@hoelz.ro>
63- Ruslan Zakirov <ruz@bestpractical.com>
64- Shawn M Moore <sartak@bestpractical.com>
65- Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>
66- Stephane Alnet <stephane@shimaore.net>
67- Unknown user <nobody@localhost>
68- Yanick Champoux <yanick@babyl.dyndns.org>
69- franck cuny <franck@lumberjaph.net>
70- robertkrimen <robertkrimen@gmail.com>
71- sunnavy <sunnavy@bestpractical.com>
72