Thanks for your interest in getting involved with hashesDB. Please note that the db keeps only meta-information on files. Each hash is a few bytes; 250 bytes for 1 billion files amount to 250GB (nowadays available on a USB stick). Even if we have that many data (which would be a nice problem to have), one could partition the data, keeping different hashes on different SQLite data files. The advantages of SQLite are obviously the single-file data store and the serverless implementation. I believe its ease of deployment it offers outweigh any potential reservation of scale. To your last point, of course I'd welcome any involvement to the project whenever possible. However, it should be clear that any work outside the GSoC framework will not affect any decisions related to GSoC. On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 16:41, Giorgos wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am Giorgos Kosmas and I am a third-year undergraduate student at > National Technical University of Athens, studying towards a degree in > Electrical and Computer Engineering. > > I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code during the > summer. Particularly, I would like to get involved in the development of > the "hashesDB" project. > > I have some clarifying questions regarding the library in which the > database will be implemented. I am familiar with SQLite, however I am > not sure if SQLite is appropriate for this project, due to the fact that > SQLite is a single-disk database. Given the fact that this project > should support huge archives of files, is it likely that the total size > of our database exceeds the memory size of a single disk? In this case > the user would be required to buy a larger and more expensive hard-disk, > instead of just buying a much cheaper disk that would provide the > additional memory space required. > > I would like to begin contributing to this project as soon as the fall > exam period ends(late February), before the announcement of the accepted > mentoring organizations. If this is possible, I would be glad to arrange > a skype call in order to discuss further technical decisions in detail. > > Thanks in advance, > > Giorgos > -- -- zvr -
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