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only took a couple months 😑 but finally got profiles working in nostrdb.

Damus now queries the local relay directly whenever it needs profile info. Its always up to date, has access to every profile its ever seen in realtime, and is as fast as accessing the profile from memory. No longer do clients need to have a separate in-memory cache for profiles, which *drastically* simplifies client code.

The old profile database is buggy and is causing crashes on the current TestFlight build, so this will fix that and make profile loading a lot faster.

Just a small update but a huge technical milestone for nostrdb. Again, thanks for your patience 😁. Damus is evolving into something new 👀
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The Callnote 2y ago 💬 1

will users be able to access the nostrdb with something DBTools? super excited to learn about it

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jb55 2y ago 💬 1

Its a custom built database for nostr so unlikely. Would need its own set of tools

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The Callnote 2y ago 💬 2

is the idea that you can use the DB for anything that's running on your relay like a market or media hosting or something including the nostr relay itself?

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jb55 2y ago

The idea is to have an embeddable relay as fast a strfry in any native nostr app. It stores notes in a format that is equivalent to accessing the data in memory, so it’s already faster than most databases in that sense.

The idea is that nostrdb will do all the heavy lifting: parsing, verifying, indexing, etc so clients can just be simple UIs and not have to think about protocol details or making crazy performance optimizations just go get a client up and running.

Its just a database for now but i want it to handle networking and relay code eventually as well. A native nostr devkit.

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The Callnote 2y ago

i like it, its like a nostr engine that your nostr apps can run on it seems,, Thanks @jb55