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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Chris Murtland wrote:
>At least in ConnectedText, categories (which are the same as tags), can
>be placed into a hierarchy.
CT is a very advanced and flexible tool by wiki standards. For example, the ability to create customised fields and organise/filter the model accordingly is surely not common.
As far as categories go, in the wikimatrix.org it is listed as a single feature with the question “can pages be added to (multiple) categories?”, thereby differentiating categories from inclusive folders, but that’s about it. For 88 of the listed wikis the answer is “yes” without more information http://www.wikimatrix.org/search.php?sid=846 From my (limited) experience with wikis, I’d say most use a flat list of categories.
In any case, I am discussing here mostly the principles of organisation. In principle, for example, a wiki is very different from an outliner. The fact that there are information managers combining both approaches into one, doesn’t make the two approaches any more similar. I would say that it is a good thing when multiple approaches are available to the user, but it also goes to highlight the limitations of each.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 10, 2012 at 10:54 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>How stable is Piggydb at this stage of its development? I looked into it
>a while ago but for some reason it didn’t feel like it was mature enough
>yet for mission-critical projects. Also, I’d want some easy
>import-export options, to switch stuff back and forth.
In my (non demanding) use of it I have found it very stable. I would expect as such from a tool that is server based: it is not so difficult to render foolproof as the browser interface itself limits the kind of stuff you can pass to the actual program.
Your choice of software is wise, especially considering the importance of your data. As noted earlier, Piggydb is still fairly new and lacking in several areas, import-export being a major one. But it does feel well-built, and moving in a consistent direction.
Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 14, 2013 at 09:51 PM
Is there anyone here who has used Piggydb over a long time as a main knowledge base? I’m just wondering how it scales up when you have hundreds or thousands of fragments. Any performance issues? Any issues with large number of tags and dealing with the complexity of the amassed information?
Posted by jimspoon
Aug 15, 2013 at 06:03 AM
I went to the piggydb.net website, thinking there might be a forum there where users might have brought up the issue of scalability. Didn’t find any forum. Daisuke seems to be working steadily on piggydb - he’s up to version of 6.13. You might try asking him about scalability .. perhaps by posting a comment to one of his blog posts. In his “about” post, “scalable” is one of the first words he uses to describe piggydb. But in a comment, he says he doesn’t plan to implement substring searching because of scalability concerns:
Hi,
this piece of software is quite uselful to me … thank you. It should be fine to be able to search substring not just exact match of the searched word. Do you plan to implement this ?
br
milan
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Daisuke Morita
January 10, 2013 at 4:02 am
Hi Milan,
Thank you for your feedback.
I don’t have a plan to implement searching substring because I think it won’t scale (maintain certain performance) when your database grows larger.
Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 15, 2013 at 10:13 AM
jimspoon wrote:
>You might try asking him about scalability .. perhaps
>by posting a comment to one of his blog posts.
Thanks for looking into it and for the suggestion. I’d still be interested in users’ experiences though, rather than just the developer’s opinion on the matter.