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Peer-to-Peer Ordered Search Indexes – 0 FPS

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“Can we do to web services what Linux did to the operating systems?” Imagine what the web with a P2P GitHub, a P2P YouTube, a P2P Twitter, a P2P Google search, and so on. But getting st…

“Can we do to web services what Linux did to the operating systems?” Imagine what the web with a P2P GitHub, a P2P YouTube, a P2P Twitter, a P2P Google search, and so on. But getting started with P2P services remains difficult, because: “There is no P2P PostGRES!” This is a very hard problem, so instead consider a more modest project: “Let’s build a dynamic P2P ordered search index” While pretty far from a full SQL database, a search index is a critical component for a modern RDBMS as it enables the following sorts of queries: Predecessor/successor Ran

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