diff --git a/RelatedProjects.md b/RelatedProjects.md index 2daef93..8eab0f5 100644 --- a/RelatedProjects.md +++ b/RelatedProjects.md @@ -39,24 +39,15 @@ We are fortunate to have a vast library of high quality Free Software that we ca These projects have no specific relationship with our project, but they are similar in some ways and so may be of interest. We sometimes exchange ideas with the designers of some of these projects, especially on the [p2p-hackers mailing list](http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers). * [ceph](http://ceph.newdream.net/about) is a distributed filesystem intended to be scalable and robust. It includes kernel code to be loaded into a Linux kernel. There are several peer-reviewed papers about the design. licence: LGPL - * [flud backup](http://flud.org) is an ambitious decentralized backup system. flud has the distinction of being one of few decentralized storage projects with a sense of humor. licence: GPLv3 - * [cleversafe](http://cleversafe.org) is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid. Some of the company's projects are released under GPLv2. - * [iRODS](http://irods.org) is an open source grid technology building on top of 10 years of work on SRB (storage resource broker). Development of the core iRODS data grid system is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration. license: BSD - * [GNUnet](http://gnunet.org) is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network. licence: GPLv2+ - * [Hadoop](http://hadoop.apache.org/core/) is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Java, supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers (at least compared to the alternatives). licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0 - * [CloudStore](http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net) formerly known as "Kosmos Distributed File System" -- is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in C++, and recently announced some sort of compatibility with Hadoop. licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0 - * [mogilefs](http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/) is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL. It was written by the folks who made [LiveJournal](http://livejournal.com). The name is an anagram for "OMG files". licence: some combination of BSD and GPL and Artistic. - * [fluidinfo](http://fluidinfo.com/) is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of knowledge management. The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms. Here's [his PhD thesis](http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf). He also contributes to the Twisted Python project. fluidinfo hasn't released any source code. (interesting vaporware) - # See Also * Our [Dev page](Dev), especially the [developing Extensions page](Extensions)