NAME

       Prophet

DESCRIPTION

       Prophet is a distributed database system designed for small to medium scale social
       database applications.  Our early targets include things such as bug tracking.

   Design goals
       Arbitrary record schema
       Replication
       Disconnected operation
       Peer to peer synchronization

   Design constraints
       Scaling
           We don't currently intend for the first implementation of Prophet to scale to
           databases with millions of rows or hundreds of concurrent users. There's nothing that
           makes the design infeasible, but the infrastructure necessary for such a system
           will...needlessly hamstring it.