Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Parts is parts


Rdbhost is a thin wrapper around the Postgresql database engine (8.3.7). The web server receives the request, authenticates the requester, and provides the query to the database engine. The results of the query are then converted to XML or JSON and sent to the requester.

Query results are formatted as XML or JSON, which are generated using the excellent Python libraries lxml and simplejson. The lxml library is a Python binding for libxml2 "the Gnome XML C parser and toolkit".




http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/ SimpleJson





The post title is from a classic American television ad for automotive parts, wherein the negative credibility speaker suggests that all parts are equal.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

A modest venture


www.Rdbhost.Com provides a service that I have not seen available, in any similar form.

If you need an SQL database, and your web host does not provide or permit the installation of an SQL database, we can provide you one. As a web service, rdbhost databases are accessed via http requests. If you are coding in Python, we even have a DB API module for rdbhost databases; you can code your database usage without worrying about http or other networking issues.

Our pricing model is pay-as-you-go, so you only pay for actual bandwidth and diskspace used. To get you started, very low usage is free. To set up an account, we only ask of you a valid email address.

Set up an account for free, and dabble with it; see first hand how it works. If you agree with us that a true ACID-compliant SQL relational database is worth the modest additional setup effort, then go with it. When your account usage exceeds our free limits, we will sell you as much or as little additional bandwidth and space as you need.

We do support TLS encrypted https connections.

We provide tools for manipulating your database:
  • Rdbadmin - a database manager similar to PhpMinAdmin
  • A database dump tool to dump the entire database (as SQL) to your browser for backup purposes
  • A plain-jane html form for submitting queries to the database, and getting XML/JSON responses

A few starter links:



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