metabase is something like a non-sql database that provides encrypted and compressed storage across several files.
Currently this storage engine would be used to store financial transaction data, employee salaries and fixcosts.
Also investment related stuff would be managed with this piece of software.
Please note that this storage should be able to handle huge amounts of money so security really matters here.
Max. encryption key-size is: 4096 Bit per default.
libbzip2 will be used to de-/compress any data.
Computing-
Build-System: CMake
Target-Plattform: x86_64/AMD64 or IA64 (with aligned SSE2 for encryption)
Target-OS: any Linux-distro using at least kernel version 3.x (mmap/mprotect/
Future releases will be include some transport protocol over TCP/IP with SSL-encapsulation (with client-certs of course).
some important terminology:
metatyp: a complex datatyp like a sql-table
metakey: just a key for metatypes (UNIQUE,
metaslot: an entry with a specific metatyp
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trunk series is the current focus of development.
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- Version control system:
- Bazaar
- Programming languages:
- C/C++
