Farrago Roadmap

Farrago has been under development since early in 2003. We have mainly focused on getting core functionality working and tested, and have exposed a number of important extensibility points. The project is now fleshed out and stable enough to be usable in a wide variety of domains, but many areas remain to be improved.

Missing or Incomplete Framework Areas

security
domains, user-defined types and aggregates
SQL/J and SQL/PSM
SQL/XML
triggers
referential integrity, CHECK constraints, and assertions
generated columns
Information Schema views into catalog
ARRAY, MULTISET, ROW, and datetime interval datatypes
UNICODE character set and collation support
LOB datatypes
distributed transaction support
concurrency control
storage management, backup/restore
Fennel persistence for MDR

Specialization Projects

Some of the candidate areas for applying Farrago include:

federated metadata query server
federated data query server
distributed or replicated DBMS
data warehousing (already available with LucidDB)
pure-Java DBMS (but this space is already very crowded with open-source projects such as HSQLDB, Derby, and Mckoi)
transaction processing (this space is also very crowded, but Fennel really just needs a decent concurrency control mechanism to go here)
active and realtime databases
object/relational (with full SQL-2003 object support)
multimedia, spatial, full-text, temporal
XML query and storage

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