[hibernate-dev] "rebranding" the Hibernate Search "ram" directory

[Adrian Nistor]

I agree, but probably "unit-testing" is not such a good name either. 
Technically, that's a functional test.
I think I like "local-ram" better, implying that it is not 
shared/distributed and it is also volatile.

On 05/18/2017 06:07 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> As anyone who's bothered to read the manual knows, the "ram" directory
> should really only be used for unit tests. The other implementations,
> while typically disk based, are also faster (memory mapped files) and
> more efficient (better locking design) so there's really no reason to
> use it, not even performance except for trivial, small, non important
> data sets.
>
> For example the Elasticsearch team is making sure of this by having
> totally removed the option of using the RAMDirectory - something I
> actually don't appreciate as our unit tests could benefit from it,
> having slow storage on our test environments.
>
> Tristan is reporting that the "ram" terminology is confusing people,
> not least in the Infinispan community as "RAM" might be ambiguous
> since everything is in memory, and people get surprised it's not
> replicated in the "in memory cluster".
>
> I wouldn't want to go to the extremes of the Elasticsearch team as I
> believe having this option is very useful, especially for testing.
>
> Should we rename (rebrand) its short name "ram" into "unit-testing" ?
>
> I suspect that would make people think a bit more before pushing it
> into production...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sanne