Wovin engine

INFO

TBD - this is a first overview

Our attempt at a way to deal with data - aligned with these ideas:

local-first - app & data should work autonomously. Independent of servers & platforms.
- peer-to-peer - users & services should work together as simple and direct as possible
- share at will - share only the data you want, only with whom you want to
flexible
- different apps have different needs
- even users using the same app might have differing requirements & style
- transport data over various channels, store where & how you want to
hackable - the engine we develop will never suffice the needs & wants of everyone else
- extensible - make it easy to add new data sources, formats & transformations
- agnostic - make it easy for other apps to interpret & create data that can weave with others
- open source - open data needs open source, everyone can customize & extend
- it should be very easy to query & transform data
- end-user programmable

datalog-style
- Extended EAV triple - a single data point is composed of Entity ID, Attribute name, Value, Agent ID, Timestamp and previous atom
- this enables the most flexible view on data where different apps & users care about / contribute different attributes but can talk about / interact with the same entity
- easily merge, split & transform data as needed
IPFS / IPLD - we (mainly) care about what data we want, not where from. Also, we want to verify & cache easily.
end-to-end encryption - if wanted, encrypt your data streams for intended recipients
In browser - most of the internet happens in browsers, so this is our first target

alpha-stage
Typescript-based
using mobx for reactivity
- all queries are instantly reactive to changes in the source streams - locally (we don't have realtime sync yet, only push/pull)
- queries are broken down into computed functions, enabling other queries to re-use shared parts of the query (behaving like indices / materialized views) (TBD)
IndexDB for local-first storage
Web3.storage/NFT.storage as an easy first way to store data on IPFS.
(more about storage)

For now, we don't have docs, just some examples.

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