Access overview

FluidDB can currently only be accessed via HTTP. Two other interfaces are anticipated (via XMPP and Thrift). Details of the HTTP API are given here.

Sandbox

As well as the main instance of FluidDB, we also have a sandbox with the very latest fixes. Details are here.

Open source client-side libraries

There are already many client-side libraries for FluidDB, with more are on the way. The current list is below. If you want library for a language that’s not yet supported, why not write it yourself? We’ll be happy to help. If you’re interested, you should definitely check out the FluidDB Weekend of Code offer.

• Clojure: clj-fluiddb is a Clojure library written by Hugo Duncan, and based on the cl-fluiddb library below.
• Common Lisp: cl-fluiddb, written by Holger Dürer.
• Emacs Lisp: fluiddb.el, written by Holger Dürer.
• Java: JFluidDB, written by Ross Jones.
• Javascript: jsFluidDB is being written by Emanuel Carnevale and Arvind Jamuna Dixit.
• .Net: FluidDB.NET, written by Nicholas Tollervey.
• Perl: Net::FluidDB, written by Xavi Noria.
• PHP: phpFluidDB, written by paparent. The fluidDB.php file is the general library, see below for the FluidDB explorer.
• Python: FluidFS which comes with both a Python FluidDB library and code to use FluidDB as a FUSE. Written by Seo Sanghyeon.
• Python (Twisted compatible): txFluidDB, written by Tristan Seligmann.
• Python: FDB is a Python library that extends the FluidFS library (above) to be more object oriented, written by Nicholas Radcliffe.
• Python: FOM, written by Ali Afshar. FOM is the FluidDB Object Mapper. One component is a low-level Python API. To this, FOM adds a Fluid session class, for making convenient calls to FluidDB. The calls are modeled directly on the FluidDB REST API. FOM may become something like a browser, and appear in the application list below.
• Ruby: rb-fluidDB, written by Emanuel Carnevale.

As well as the above, we’re aware of projects that are underway to write libraries in Erlang, F#, Haskell, Objective C, Scala, Scheme, and Smalltalk.

Applications

Here are some early applications.

• FluidDB Explorer, is included in the phpFluidDB package (above) of paparent. The Explorer is very useful for examining namespaces, tags, objects, and users from the comfort of your browser. Install the .php files, put your FluidDB username and password into config.php, and then point your browser at the phpfluiddbexplorer.php file. You’ll then be able to navigate around inside FluidDB by following links in your browser. You can also enter FluidDB queries and examine the objects that are returned. FluidDB Explorer is rapidly growing new features. Creating tag values, updating them, etc. are on their way.
• The FDB package from Nicholas Radcliffe (see above) also offers a powerful command line tool for working with FluidDB. Nicholas has used it to import his 1500+ Delicious tags into FluidDB, as he describes here.