Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

• libsqlfs

  9 571 0.0 C

  a library that implements a POSIX style filesystem on top of an SQLite database

  

Maybe there isn't a database engine that explicitly supports file system daya structures, but you could implement a filesystem in the application layer using SQLite as a storage mechanism.

Here's an example of someone doing that very thing.

https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs

• sqlfs

  1 14 10.0 Python

  Sqlite FUSE filesystem with sqlcipher support

For those looking for a more up to date alternative, with a non-hardcoded DB file path, try https://github.com/greenbender/sqlfs (not affiliated, just had a look in this area a few weeks ago)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• nix-1p

  7 848 4.7 Nix

  A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.

Wouldn't say there's a steep learning curve for the language itself, it's pretty easy to get a grasp around it imo. Here's a helpful page I used to quickly get familiar with the language: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p

What's rather messy about Nix is nixpkgs with its helper functions all over the place alongside pretty shallow / non-existent documentation (which is unrelated to the language). Thankfully they've started to work on that recently: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-...

• nix-book

  5 209 0.6

  Discontinued Nix documentation – centralized community online learning resource for Nix

  

Wouldn't say there's a steep learning curve for the language itself, it's pretty easy to get a grasp around it imo. Here's a helpful page I used to quickly get familiar with the language: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p

What's rather messy about Nix is nixpkgs with its helper functions all over the place alongside pretty shallow / non-existent documentation (which is unrelated to the language). Thankfully they've started to work on that recently: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-...

• camellia

  3 32 0.0 Go

  A lightweight, persistent, hierarchical key-value store, written in Go

The concept of a system-wide hierarchical key-value store is actually very useful is some environments. I had to develop one some time ago [1] for an embedded system, since is super useful to have a single point of truth/configuration/state, if every application agrees on using it (which is the case in such systems were every application is known in advance and developed in house)

[1] https://github.com/debevv/camellia

• dirs-rs

  3 601 1.7 Rust

  a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows

  

There are several libraries that handle directory for you in the appropriate OS-specific manner.

One Rust example being https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-rs

> The library provides the location of these directories by leveraging the mechanisms defined by

> the XDG base directory and the XDG user directory specifications on Linux and Redox

> the Known Folder API on Windows

> the Standard Directories guidelines on macOS

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