[GNUnet-developers] A Graph Database on top GNUnet (take two)

[amirouche]

This is a follow up thread about my attempt to build a peer-to-peer 
graph
database on top of gnunet. My initial thoughts are documented at [0].

[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnunet/2014-01/msg00000.html

After experimenting with gnunet-guile2 [1] and thanks to the new 
documentation
I have a light bulb moment where every pieces seems to fit together. 
Here is
an attempt to describe and document my plan. And an opportunity for 
experienced
people to give more advices or correct my limited knowledge of gnunet.

[1] https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-guile2.git/

My current idea is to use gnunet fs to share small files (around 1MB) 
that would
be called meme (or atom or something else, I am not sure about the 
naming). And
rely on keywords to link it to others. Keywords would be the gnunet URI 
of other
meme files.

It would rely on GNS and a TXT record to publish the gnunet fs URI of a 
map of the
database of meme each identity or ego published. Think of this as some 
kind web
sitemap.xml.

So there is two ways to discover new content in this database.

First, it is via keywords. If one has access to a gnunet URI and want to 
know what
is related to that meme. One can search the gnunet URI as keyword and 
find out
other memes.

Another way to find out about what happens on the network, is to lookup 
some TXT record in of known GNS names.

An improvement over this setup will be to make use of pub-sub (via 
cadet?) to live
stream changes to the database. I am not there yet. First, I want the 
meme network
to be a useable slow network (like a newsgroup or mailing list).