Windows-like registry for Linux?

[Neil Schelly]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 01:24 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> A cow-orker is tasked with implementing a lean-
> and-mean registry thingy that's maybe similar
> to the Windows registry, or maybe not.  The real
> goal is for multiple processes/threads to be able
> to perform attribute lookups cheaply and reliably
> and possibly VERY frequently (many thousands/sec)
> with updates possible but very infrequent.
>
> Anybody know of such a beast?    Maybe a library
> that uses shared memory?

Just a thought, but how about an LDAP schema to support your options and an 
LDAP server to do the backend.  They were designed to be exactly:
> goal is for multiple processes/threads to be able
> to perform attribute lookups cheaply and reliably
> and possibly VERY frequently (many thousands/sec)
> with updates possible but very infrequent.

-Neil