NAME CogBase - A CogBase Implementation in Perl WARNING This Database implementation is in its infancy. Just barely a proof of concept so far. It would be ridiculous of you to use it for anything serious, yet. SYNOPSIS use CogBase; my $conn = CogBase->connect('http://cog.example.com'); my $schema = $conn->node('Schema'); $schema->value(<<'...'); +: person <: Node age: Number given_name: String family_name: String ... $conn->store($schema); my $person = $conn->node('person'); $person->given_name('Ingy'); $person->family_name('dot Net'); $person->age(42); $conn->store($person); my @results = $conn->query('!person'); my @nodes = $conn->fetch(@results); for my $node (@nodes) { print "%s %s is %d years old\n", $node->given_name, $node->family_name, $node->age; } $conn->disconnect; DESCRIPTION CogBase is a Object Database Management System. Some interesting characteristics of its design are: * All objects are stored as nodes. * Every node has a universally unique id. * Every node has a type. * Every type has a schema. * Every schema, is itself, a node in the db. * Every schema has a base/super schema that it inherits from. * Schemas can be used to generate programming language (Perl) classes for every type (schema) of node. * CogBase defines several core scalar types. * CogBase defines one core schema (that every schema inherits from). * Every node has one or more revisions. * Every revision is immutable. * Database access methods are connect, create, store, fetch, query and disconnect. * All nodes have access control based on the Unix File System. * HTTP is used for the network layer. GET and POST are used for all operations. * Database can be used over network or embedded. * Access control is based on Unix File System AUTHOR Ingy döt Net, "" BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-cogbase at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc CogBase You can also look for information at: * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation * CPAN Ratings * RT: CPAN's request tracker * Search CPAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Unix, HTTP COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2006 Ingy döt Net, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.