# Mongoose 0.1.1

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 20, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongoose-0-1-1/99181 "2006-07-20T21:03:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jamey\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@Jamey\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jamey_C)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongoose-0-1-1/99181/1 "2006-07-20T21:03:37Z")

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You can download it from: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongoose/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongoose/)

_What’s New_

Well, in the spirit of “Release early and often”, here’s a new version.  
This one has some bug fixes and code cleanup, but the big news is I  
implemented a new index initialization routine that has cut index  
initialization time in half, greatly improved performance on some  
queries, and reduced memory consumption by one-third in some  
circumstances.

Here’s a totally non-scientific example. Doing a range query (Time data  
type) against an 80,000 record table and returning a 5,000 record result  
set:

## Version: 0.1.1

Index initialization: 2 seconds  
Query time: 0.75 seconds

## Version: 0.1.0

Index initialization: 5.5 seconds  
Query time: 1 .8 seconds

By the way, here’s how KirbyBase performed doing the same query:

## KirbyBase: 2.6

Index initialization: 12 seconds  
Query time: 20 seconds

Not bad for a young mongoose!

_What is Mongoose?_

Mongoose is a database management system written in Ruby. It has an  
ActiveRecord-like interface, uses Skiplists for its indexing, and  
Marshal for its data serialization. I named it Mongoose, because, like  
Rudyard Kipling’s Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, my aim is for it to be small, quick,  
and friendly.

Jamey C.  
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