isk-daemon: Content-based image database server

In order to help you integrating isk-daemon to your existing image-related web site, we propose the following list of questions. Get in contact with as much details as you can so we can try to help.

1. Do all images on your site have a logical representation on a relational database like MySQL, PostgreQSL etc where metadata may be stored?
2. Or are they just referenced on static HTML pages?
3. Do you have any server side logic for your site (PHP, ASP, CGI etc) ?
4. What’s your level of expertise writing web applications ?
5. Is your site hosted on Windows or Linux ?
6. Do you have shell access (Linux) ?
7. Do you plan on running isk-daemon on a shared hosting environment or on dedicated machines ?
8. Which other capabilities are available at your hosting package ?
9. Are the concepts and relations mentioned on the isk-daemon architecture clear to you ?
10. Would you agree on placing a link back to the isk-deamon site on search results as a way to promote this technology ?
11. Do you have any web user interface already in place or are you planning a new one ?
12. Where are image files are stored ?
13. Which HTTP server do you use ?
14. How many images do you plan on making available to searching ?
15. How much CPU and RAM memory do you have available at your servers ?

Feel free to contact us through email (server at imgseek.net) or by submitting a comment on any page in this site. All suggestions, bugs, feedback, wish-lists, inquiries etc are welcome !

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The diagram above depicts the interaction between an existing web application and a cluster of isk-daemon instances.

All isk-daemon instances communicate to each other automatically balancing the load of adding images to its database and querying for similarity. This way, the web server(s) acting as a client to the isk-daemon cluster is isolated from the fact that there is a cluster of image similarity engines and can make calls to any instance.

Optionally, isk-daemon can make use of memcached instances to cache query requests in order to increase querying throughput.