In March 2010 (3rd and 9th), I wrote on this blog about a new backend for Emdros under development, called the "Bit Packed Table" (BPT) backend. It is a high-performance, read-only database engine, based on "bit packed tables" and custom-tailored to the EMdF model. It outperforms even SQLite in terms of raw querying speed by about 30% on average.

I have recently made the BPT engine almost feature-complete, including adding an encryption layer. The encryption isn't strong, but it does the job of keeping prying eyes out of your data.

I have added BPT to two of my Emdros-based software projects, using it exclusively for the backend for these projects, both of which deliver content to the user through a thin shell on top of Emdros. It works fine, and the speed increase over SQLite 3 is especially noticeable -- pieces of content that used to take 1.5 seconds to load now leap onto the screen.

I said the BPT engine is almost feature-complete. The only thing missing, in fact, is support for stored monad sets. That is, monad sets that don't have any object data associated with them, but which can be used for delimiting a query. I will add this feature in due course.

The BPT engine isn't Open Source, and won't be for the foreseeable future. If you are interested in licensing the engine, please drop me an email.

Enjoy!

Ulrik