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

[Gunnar Morling]

I'd argue you can keep the name, if it's in the test JAR. If people
still use it in their production code, well...

Otherwise, how about "ephemeral"?

2017-05-18 19:05 GMT+02:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:
> On 18 May 2017 at 17:31, Gunnar Morling <gunnar.morling at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Can't you just move it to the test JAR if it's for testing only?
>
> Interesting idea, we can try that as well.
>
> I'd still want to set the name straight though. Let's agree on a name first.
>
>>
>> Am 18.05.2017 6:29 nachm. schrieb "Sanne Grinovero" <sanne at hibernate.org>:
>>
>> Right technically it's not a unit test. But I'd like to focus on the
>> testing aspect, as "local-ram" might still convey concepts as "fast",
>> maybe even expect it to engage Infinispan's off-heap capabilities, or
>> just being an option to consider for other reasons.
>>
>> "testing" ?
>>
>> On 18 May 2017 at 17:20, Adrian Nistor <anistor at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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