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The Basics

Install dependecies

Add mishmash io to your project:

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$ npm install mishmash-io

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$ pip install mishmash-io-client

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Connect

Import and instantiate:

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const Mishmash = require('mishmash-io')

mishmash = new Mishmash()

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from Mishmash import Mishmash

mishmash = Mishmash()

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You are now connected and mishmash will ‘hold’ all your data as if it was in the local memory of your app.

Additional information: Note

There is no API or framework beyond the simple use of ‘local’ to your app ‘mishmash’ variables.

Store Data

To store data, just assign values, arrays and objects to the properties of a mishmash variable:

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mishmash.myObjects[] = {
  "a": 42,
  "b": "a lazy dog",
  "c": [obj1, obj2]
}

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mishmash.myObjects = {
  "a": 42,
  "b": "a lazy dog",
  "c": [obj1, obj2]
}

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That’s it - your data is stored and available for later use under mishmash.myObjects.

Additional information: Note

As a database, mishmash io has no schema. It just uses whatever ‘schema’ you create by the way you organize and store your data.

Access Data

To pull data into your app, just loop over a mishmash variable:

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for (o in mishmash.myObjects) {
  if (o.a === 42) {
    // do something
  }
}

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for o in mishmash.myObjects:
  if o.a == 42:
    # do something

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The body of the for loop will now operate on your app server with data arriving from the mishmash io cluster. However, remember that this will only run at the speed of your app server and network.

Additional information: Tip

To make your code run faster than that, see the advanced examples below.

Advanced

Building ‘mishmashes’

When building ‘mishmashes’ - those portions of the data that your code needs to work on - you don’t have to strictly follow the hierarchy of properties, members and indexes that you created when you stored the data.

To simplify your work, you can grab the data items at any level:

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mishmash_b = mishmash.b
mishmash_dogs = mishmash['a lazy dog']

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mishmash_b = mishmash.b
mishmash_dogs = mishmash['a lazy dog']

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And you can build mishmashes by putting together or slicing apart completely unrelated branches of your data:

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cake = mishmash('chocolate', 
                'bananas')
                
coffee = mishmash.coffees.black

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cake = mishmash('chocolate', 
                'bananas')

coffee = mishmash.coffees.black

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Additional information: Note

There’s much more that you can do to build mishmashes - scroll down to find out more.

‘Query’ with code

To achieve super-fast execution of complex logic, don’t pull data into the app - instead, push your code into the mishmash io cluster:

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mishmash.myObjects(
  function(input) {
    for (o in input) {
      if (o.a === 42) {
        // do something complex
      }
    }
  }
)

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def function(input):
  for o in input:
    if o.a == 42:
      # do something complex

mishmash.myObjects(function)

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The supplied function will now be automatically optimized and ‘executed’ in parallel across all cluster nodes that contain portions of myObjects and any other input.

Additional information: Note

The code is transformed into a ‘parallel’ equivalent by combining syntax analysis and knowledge of input data.

Advanced Algorithms

Learn mishmash io through examples.

We developed a little app that analyzes football data to automatically find interesting statistics about the next match.

The details on how we did it are a great place to get started with mishmash io.

Additional information: This section is being updated

We’re currently working on adding more examples.