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Nov 7, 2017 at 10:26 history edited J. M.'s missing motivation
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Sep 30, 2014 at 19:14 comment added Per Alexandersson I was more thinking along the line of memoization, but storing computed things in the database also. Thing is, if I run a batch for computing a large set of polynomials, say, and the kernel crashes, all partial results are lost. If I append to a raw file, the file handler is still open, so there might be data loss. Besides, I think import/export on EVERY new result computed, is a bit tough on the hard-drive (and also slows down the computation immensely), although I suppose writing to a remote location is even slower...
Sep 30, 2014 at 14:18 comment added alancalvitti @PerAlexandersson, can you give details on your corruption worries and "when to update"? Have you had issues using Import/Export? We use Dropbox and Google apps, like Gsheets for online coediting, with Mathematica with no problems. Dataset size on the order of 250m LeafCount.
Sep 29, 2014 at 22:14 comment added C. E. Come to think of it, you can probably use Pastebin as I did here. Their API lets you do the three basic things you might want to do: create a new data file, delete a data file and list all data files. (It's not the optimal database solution of course, but besides that...)
Sep 29, 2014 at 21:40 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackMma/status/516704063350910976
Sep 29, 2014 at 17:56 comment added Per Alexandersson Of course it has it built-in, haha. Too bad my office only have V9. But the dropbox API is different from the Mathematica functions, which only work with files...
Sep 29, 2014 at 17:48 comment added C. E. If you have V10 then Dropbox is supported out the box, so it shouldn't be too hard. But the Wolfram Cloud, i.e. CloudPut, is a more natural option I think.
Sep 29, 2014 at 17:43 history asked Per Alexandersson CC BY-SA 3.0