Show HN: A faithful MUMPS 76 anniversary implementation – the original NoSQL DB

Category: other

Tags: mumps, nosql-database, historical-software, programming-language, healthcare, database, retrocomputing

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 5)

This project implements the original 1976 MUMPS standard, a pioneering programming language with an integrated hierarchical key-value database that anticipated NoSQL by decades. It provides a faithful parser, interpreter, and database engine for running historical medical software on modern systems, offering a unique lens into early multi-user, schema-free data management.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, healthcare developers, programming language enthusiasts, historians of computing

Repository: https://github.com/rochus-keller/mumps/ · Mathematical Programming System · GPL-2.0 · 24 stars

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