Re: Interface MongoDB and Octave

[Olaf Till]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 06:10:51AM -0700, CdeMills wrote:
> Giulia Avallone Mendonça wrote
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We are a group (of engineering students) involved in a project based on
> > dealing with a huge amount of data. Our processing method was thought to
> > be run by Octave, due to a list of benefits we found in this open source
> > software. However, we have faced one lacuna when treating data from a
> > database.
> > 
> > We are looking for how to connect MongoDB platform to Octave. We have
> > already done this link using an intermediary API, and although it worked,
> > it is still not the optimal solution for our project.
> > 
> > Hence, our proposal is to create a modulus able to interface directly our
> > data stored in a MongoDB Server with Octave.  (We know that it is
> > possible, since Matlab software has already this feature.)
> > 
> > We are looking forward partners to develop that modulus which we believe
> > will bring a good contribution to the community, but also forward more
> > information about it. In both case, don't be afraid to contact us: 
> 
> > address@hidden
> 
> > , 
> 
> > mohamedmahdi.soltani@
> 
> > .
> 
> Hello,
> 
> It's always good to have new peoples joining the Octave community.
> 
> Regarding your query, at this time there is a "database package" on
> octave-forge: http://octave.sourceforge.net/database/index.html
> 
> This package is targeting PostgreSQL. I suggest you to think about an API
> with a similar set of functions. Then propose the code you spoke about, f.i.
> publishing it on GitHub, and telling us what's wrong with it and how you
> would like to see it evolve. From a quick search, there are already C++
> MondoDB libraries to perform query on a database; the tedious part would be
> to translate what's returned by MongoDB in Octave values.
> 
> Latter, the resulting code could be integrated in the database package, this
> would be a win-win situation for your team and for the Octave community.   
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pascal

Such code might get some 'inspiration' from the database package. But,
though new interfaces to SQL-databases should go into the database
package, an interface to MongoDB doesn't necessarily need to go into
it. It's a different concept, and probably quite independent from
SQL-related code.

Olaf

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