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Re:Pure Go implementation of D. J. Bernstein's cdb constant ... by pudquick on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @11:17AM (#4037841)
I used it in combination with the public dumps from IMDB to make a quick on-disk lookup database for use with my favorite (albeit slower) scripting language python.

I didn't have the RAM for holding it all in memory and I was only ever going to do read lookups on it.

It made it very easy to query things like: Given my favorite set of movies, which actors appearing in them have also appeared in the Doctor Who television series?

Just for fun / learning :)

Re:Pure Go implementation of D. J. Bernstein's cdb constant ... by sigil on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @05:44PM (#4040134)
Incidentally, I've heard the IMDB site itself uses cdbs heavily to serve static content and data.