7 April 2012

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P2P Wikipedia gets closer

Looks like p2p tech is finally mature enough to handle the functionality of a large SQL-intensive app like Wikipedia.

Scalaris is fully p2p and they used the project of a Wikipedia clone as their proof of concept.

"To prove our concept, we implemented a simple Wikipedia clone on Scalaris which performs several thousand transactions per second on just a few servers."

Their aim is to use it in a world-wide cluster of servers, but it shouldn't be too much of a big step to make the server aspect available for clients to run.

See also:

• Scalaris.pdf - the original paper
• Peer to peer - local P2P article
• PeerPedia - local ideas about p2p Wikipedia
• PeerVote - another related aspect of p2p Wikipedia