dartivity_database 0.2.0

The database component og the Dartivity IOT suite.

dartivity_database

This package provides the database component of the Dartivity suite of IOT monitoring and control packages.

The database component consists of both Dartivity entity definition classes and the database classes which use them. This allows the database classes to be specialised for any particular usage such as the resource database class which provides general database facilities for the Dartivity resource class.

Underlying the database classes are database driver classes that perform the function of interfacing with a specific database. Currently only one database driver is supported, for CouchDb. CouchDb gives an efficient, scalable NoSql database solution that supports full redundancy and replication facilities. This allows historic data such as events etc. to be handled seperately from current live data giving better access to such data.

This structure allows different database architectures to be used should future requirements call for this, for example Googles Cloud Datastore or even a traditional SQL database such as MariaDb.

The database component can be used anywhere in the Dartivity suite, by Dartivity clients for discovered resource handling and event handling and by the Dartivity Control front end web application for access to resource parameters, events etc.

Note that in this release only resource handling is supported, please refer to the individual class descriptions for more specific details and the test suite for usage examples.