Comments on: goodbye RDBMs http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/ Now with more async io Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:20:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: chip http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/#comment-805 chip Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:18:03 +0000 http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/#comment-805 Big companies innovate in technology, in general yes. Mostly because they have enough spare cycles to spend on research projects and they also have needs that no other small company has. On the right tool for the right job: yes, but my opinion is that RDBMS right now are used in way too many places -- and even places with Products, Customers, and Orders should really take a hard look at why they are using an RDBMs Big companies innovate in technology, in general yes. Mostly because they have enough spare cycles to spend on research projects and they also have needs that no other small company has.

On the right tool for the right job: yes, but my opinion is that RDBMS right now are used in way too many places — and even places with Products, Customers, and Orders should really take a hard look at why they are using an RDBMs

]]> By: Dmitriy http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/#comment-801 Dmitriy Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:45:28 +0000 http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/#comment-801 Hi Paul. Databases were never designed to be a panacea to the world's computing problems. You use the right tools for the right tasks. Storing all the posts in the blogosphere is obviously the wrong task for a DB -- especially when you need to do full text indexing for searching, and the R in RDBMS goes completely unused. Storing products, orders, customers, etc -- the kind of data you cross-reference all the time -- requires a database. You could do it with bdbs.. but you'd just wind up writing a database on top of them. Heck, iirc MySQL uses bdb as one of its internal storage engines. The right tool for the right job. Also, you know full well big companies innovate. Amazon didn't buy Dynamo :-) Hi Paul.
Databases were never designed to be a panacea to the world’s computing problems. You use the right tools for the right tasks.

Storing all the posts in the blogosphere is obviously the wrong task for a DB — especially when you need to do full text indexing for searching, and the R in RDBMS goes completely unused.

Storing products, orders, customers, etc — the kind of data you cross-reference all the time — requires a database. You could do it with bdbs.. but you’d just wind up writing a database on top of them. Heck, iirc MySQL uses bdb as one of its internal storage engines.

The right tool for the right job.

Also, you know full well big companies innovate. Amazon didn’t buy Dynamo :-)

]]> By: chip http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/#comment-782 chip Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:15:50 +0000 http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/#comment-782 Yeah. I guess that was a silly question. Big companies don't innovate, they buy little companies :-) Yeah. I guess that was a silly question. Big companies don’t innovate, they buy little companies :-)

]]> By: Brice Tebbs http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/#comment-780 Brice Tebbs Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:01:39 +0000 http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2007/10/04/goodbye-rdbms/#comment-780 Well I really don't know anything about Databases but the answer to your question will be no. They will not change their products. The approach they will take is to buy up the new technologies [bdb anyone?]. Well I really don’t know anything about Databases but the answer to your question will be no. They will not change their products. The approach they will take is to buy up the new technologies [bdb anyone?].

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