PersonaDB as an open standard ?
Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read
Hi Dan!
thanks for your article.
My modest opinions about PersonaDB:
What I like:
- The idea to store (hystorical) users data & facts is without doubt a common topic/problem for #botdev (chatbots developers)!
What I do not like
- I have “usual” concerns with SaaS (cloud-based) third party database repos (BTW I looked at the API docs and they are in a very draft status).
- Generally speaking, there are performance issues accessing databases HTTP API. This fight with the key/value keyword, that’s I/O fastness!
- The big perplexity is about privacy of people data. “Centralizing” (taking in a third party central server) is an HUGE concern. What’s your business model here? I’m asking because the hidden thought here is that user data are used/sell without the bot developer awareness.
Proposal
So let’s take a part the cloud-based proprietary (even if free) business/tech solution. What I’d deepen is the definition of an Persona data/facts open standard; that would allow to implement the database structure (also) using standard (relational or NoSQL) (key/value) (opensource) structured data technologies as amazing Redis or LMDB!
What do you think about it ?
respect
giorgio
