[Developers] Question about the backend software and data

[Robert Cook]

On Sep 28, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Jeff Thompson wrote:

> The closed source software is Metaweb's super-efficient server code  
> that
> handles millions of hits and thousands of simultaneous queries.
> But the data itself is a graph which could be queried with much  
> simpler, slower
> tools.  You wouldn't get the fancy GUI with the Javascript  
> templates.  But you
> could, for example, query the local cache of the data for the  
> Geolocation of
> some restaurant you're trying to find while driving around.
>
> Is the Freebase business model consistent with people having a  
> portable mirror
> of the data and querying it with simpler tools just to grab a  
> needed property value?

I think this is a fine example of how the data might be used  
independently of the Freebase infrastructure.

R

>
> Christopher R. Maden wrote:
>> Jeff Thompson wrote:
>>> What about a simple mirror, so that I could have my own local  
>>> fast-access
>>> copy of the data, or have it in case I go offline?
>>
>> Well, given that this conversation started about the software being
>> closed source, I don’t think a mirror of the data would do you much
>> good. (-:
>>
>> So the question from Tim is what kind of software would you want  
>> to use,
>> so that we can try to get the data available to you in a  
>> compatible form?
>>
>> ~Chris
>
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