From “Hello, World!” to Radiation Monitoring: Exploring HarperDB with a Practical Application

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In my previous blog post, I talked a bit about how I stumbled upon HarperDB and played around with setting it up on my Mac Mini.

I wrote a simple “Hello, World!” application that put some values in a table. (I think it took less than an hour from start to finish.)

Emboldened by this early success, I started thinking about how I might extend this project to explore the other features that HarperDB offers. Of course, when you’try to think up an application like this without a use case, it’s difficult to think of something that would be interesting or useful. Continue reading “From “Hello, World!” to Radiation Monitoring: Exploring HarperDB with a Practical Application”

HarperDB – First Impressions

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I saw a post on LinkedIn about a platform called HarperDB.

It’s billed as a distributed database, cache, and pub/sub engine rolled into one. That sounded interesting enough to try out.

HarperDB is a single-system platform that combines a SQL-like API, REST endpoints, and MQTT messaging on top of a document-style data model. It runs locally or in the cloud, and the setup takes less than a minute.

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