Blosxonomy 0.7 will be up momentarily at Blosxonomy.com - I just finished upgrading timfanelli dot com to make use of it's new database support. Blosxonomy now has the option of storing entries in either the traditional Blosxom style files, or in its own database format.

The database offers significant performance improvements over the file system; especially when you're working with folksonomies. There was previously no way for me to generate my tag cloud and related links without parsing parts of entry entry file on my site; and with about 200 entries right now, my response times for a typical page request were very near 2.5 seconds.

With the new database schema in place, and a complete rewrite of the underlying folksonomy engine to make use of it, I'm looking at about 1 second response times, which is a significant improvement. I'd recommend that anyone who decides to switch to Blosxonomy start using it, but the Blosxom style entry support will always be there too :).

To facilitate the migration, Blosxonomy also now has a utility to convert your entries between the two formats, so you can move back and forth as you like. For now, it's also the easiest way to get new entries into the database - just make a Blosxom style post and import it. Similary, updating old entries can be achieved by exporting the entry, editing it as you would any Blosxom post, and then reimporting it -- a process which does not affect your timestamps :).

I have one or two more things to clean up, and then it'll be available for download over at Blosxonomy. Stay tuned!