use email as a "database" for users to send results
vsoch opened this issue · comments
This will be a solution to allow other researchers to use expfactory, sending all data immediately to an email (gmail) account with attachment/format that can be programatically parsed. If a result is even as large as 1MB, this means a single account can hold 17K results, which is way more than a single user would need. We would also provide the python module to easily parse the emails, and then send to other kinds of (real) databases. This is basically using an email account like a personal database - all that is needed on the server is SMTP (and I'll start with a free service like SendMail that does 12K a month and in production we would want to host our own). We never store the data, we send it to the user, and it can easily be pushed (by them) into whatever database they like.
that was easy!
