Changes between Version 65 and Version 66 of RelatedProjects

Timestamp:

2011-02-03T06:44:52Z (13 years ago)

Author:

zooko

Comment:

organize Other Projects more

RelatedProjects

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 These projects have no specific relationship with our project, but they are similar in some ways and so may be of interest.  We sometimes exchange ideas with the developers of some of these projects, especially on the [http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers p2p-hackers mailing list].
 
+(Warning: some of the following distinctions between ''types'' of tool may be artificial, or may be more about history and culture than about technical differences.)
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+== more filesystem-ey ==
  * [http://wieldysoftware.com/octavia/ Octavia] is a new distributed filesystem inspired by Tahoe-LAFS and intended to improve on Tahoe-LAFS in performance and usability. It is very new and not yet usable except for experimentation.  licence: GPL
- * [http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/weave Mozilla Weave] is a project to securely share your web browser metadata such as cookies, saved passwords, and bookmarks.
- * [http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ Cassandra] is a distributed database, based on the Amazon Dynamo design.  licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0
- * [http://ceph.newdream.net/about ceph] is a distributed filesystem intended to be scalable and robust.  It includes kernel code to be loaded into a Linux kernel.  There are several peer-reviewed papers about the design.  licence: LGPL
- * [http://irods.org iRODS] is an open source grid technology building on top of 10 years of work on SRB (storage resource broker). Development of the core iRODS data grid system is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration.  license: BSD
- * [http://gnunet.org GNUnet] is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network. licence: GPLv2+
+ * [http://ceph.newdream.net/about ceph] is a distributed filesystem intended to be scalable and robust.  It includes kernel code to be loaded into a Linux kernel. There are several peer-reviewed papers about the design.  licence: LGPL
+ * [http://irods.org iRODS] is an open source grid technology. Development is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration.  license: BSD
  * [http://hadoop.apache.org/core/ Hadoop] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Java, supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers (at least compared to the alternatives).  licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0
  * [http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net CloudStore] formerly known as "Kosmos Distributed File System" -- is open source, inspired by the Google File System and written in C++.  licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0
  * [http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ mogilefs] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL.  It was written by the folks who made [http://livejournal.com LiveJournal].  The name is an anagram for "OMG files".  licence: some combination of BSD and GPL and Artistic.
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+== more database-ey ==
+ * [http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ Cassandra] is a distributed database, based on the Amazon Dynamo design.  licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0
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+== more p2p-ey ==
+ * [http://gnunet.org GNUnet] is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network. licence: GPLv2+
  * [http://flud.org flud backup] is an ambitious decentralized backup system.  flud has the distinction of being one of the few decentralized storage projects with a sense of humor.  It appears to be dormant.  licence: GPLv3
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+== other ==
+ * [http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/weave Mozilla Weave] is a project to securely share your web browser metadata such as cookies, saved passwords, and bookmarks.  licence: Mozilla
 
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