I encourage anyone curious to take a look at the data they generated. http://github.com/macan/Pomegranate/wiki/Experiment I'd love it some other people were to give it ago, and see if they can replicate the results. I'm still setting it up.

They may be planning to add this - but what would be very nice would be to have the same data accessible through both "traditonal" file system APIs but also allow NoSQL style access to the associated metadata.

If you could then plug in your own indexing and search engine in at the file system level and have it accessible through the same API then that would be particularly awesome.

Any reason to prefer NoSql to full relational?

If not, what's the difference between your request and WinFS aka longhorn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS .

Not really - just that I'm in the middle of doing something with CouchDB on the server side and my own lightweight MapReduce engine sitting on top of the in-browser SQLite database in Safari (for the iPhone/iPad). So everything looks document oriented to me at the moment!

This project seems interesting but the github repo seems to be missing the kernel part. That or the documentation and blog post are incorrect. Hopefully someone will be able to provide a little more information about using it so others can test it.

The kernel module is under optimizing, we may provide it in a few weeks. Thanks!

Not to get too fluffy, but 'pomegranate' is perfect name. Creative and yet apropos.

I thought this said flies at first and it grossed me out pretty bad.

It's funny you say that because when I fist published the article I froze in horror because I thought it read "Flies" instead of "Files." Strangely I still read it that way...Crap I just did again when rereading this post...

Sounds like Redis.