Akonadi

The Akonadi framework, named after the oracle goddess of justice in Ghana is responsible for providing applications with a centralized database to store, index and retrieve the user's personal information. This includes the user's emails, contacts, calendars, events, journals, alarms, notes, etc.

Features

• Common PIM data cache
• Type agnostic design
• Extensibility
• Generic offline access, change recording and replay
• Generic conflict detection and resolution
• Resources are groupable by profile
• Items composed of independently retrievable multiple parts
• Zero-copy retrieval possible
• Concurrent access allows background activity independent of UI client
• Syncing mail, calendar, addressbooks to remote servers
• Permits semantic desktop infrastructure to access PIM data
• Archiving
• Indexing
• Out-of-process search
• Multi-process design
• Crash isolation
• Large items can't block whole system
• Linkage by IPC allows proprietary components