Comments on: The RDBMS God….. http://dancres.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancres.org%2Fblitzblog%2F2007%2F02%2F07%2Fthe-rdbms-god%2F%23comment-&seed_title=The+RDBMS+God%26%238230%3B.. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:39:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: james governor http://dancres.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancres.org%2Fblitzblog%2F2007%2F02%2F07%2Fthe-rdbms-god%2F%23comment-43&seed_title=The+RDBMS+God%26%238230%3B../comment-page-1/#comment-43 james governor Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:16:41 +0000 http://www.dancres.org/blitzblog/2007/02/07/the-rdbms-god/#comment-43 of course RDBMS isn't suitable for everything. but as an industry we constantly embrace reductionism, before expanding out again, in waves something like evolution. hierarchical and flat file databases have their place. i would say we should avoid seeking a new religion unless its a pantheistic one. the judeo-christian tradition makes us believe in one true god, which is quite limiting. what not have different gods, and databases, for diffferent niches? please excuse taking your point literally, but i just got off a plane so my brain may be a bit addled. of course RDBMS isn’t suitable for everything. but as an industry we constantly embrace reductionism, before expanding out again, in waves something like evolution. hierarchical and flat file databases have their place.

i would say we should avoid seeking a new religion unless its a pantheistic one. the judeo-christian tradition makes us believe in one true god, which is quite limiting. what not have different gods, and databases, for diffferent niches? please excuse taking your point literally, but i just got off a plane so my brain may be a bit addled.

]]> By: Kerr http://dancres.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancres.org%2Fblitzblog%2F2007%2F02%2F07%2Fthe-rdbms-god%2F%23comment-42&seed_title=The+RDBMS+God%26%238230%3B../comment-page-1/#comment-42 Kerr Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:43:52 +0000 http://www.dancres.org/blitzblog/2007/02/07/the-rdbms-god/#comment-42 You might want to give CouchDB a quick look to see somethign different out there. http://couchdb.com/ It's built using erlang and designed from the ground up to be distributed. From the Couch DB project Wiki: What CouchDb is * A document database server, accessible via a RESTful XML api. * Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space. * Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and management. * Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine with a simplified formula query language. What it is not * A relational database. * A replacement for relational databases. * An object-oriented database. Or more specifically, meant to function as a seamless persistence layer for an OO programming language. * A XML/XQuery database Distributed CouchDb is built from the start with a consistent vision of a distributed document database system. Unlike cumbersome attempts to bolt distributed features on top of the same legacy models and databases, it is the result of careful ground-up design, engineering and integration. The document, view, security and replication models, the special purpose query language, the efficient and robust disk layout are all carefully integrated for a reliable and efficient system. You might want to give CouchDB a quick look to see somethign different out there.

http://couchdb.com/

It’s built using erlang and designed from the ground up to be distributed.

From the Couch DB project Wiki:

What CouchDb is
* A document database server, accessible via a RESTful XML api.
* Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space.
* Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and management.
* Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine with a simplified formula query language.

What it is not
* A relational database.
* A replacement for relational databases.
* An object-oriented database. Or more specifically, meant to function as a seamless persistence layer for an OO programming language.
* A XML/XQuery database

Distributed

CouchDb is built from the start with a consistent vision of a distributed document database system. Unlike cumbersome attempts to bolt distributed features on top of the same legacy models and databases, it is the result of careful ground-up design, engineering and integration. The document, view, security and replication models, the special purpose query language, the efficient and robust disk layout are all carefully integrated for a reliable and efficient system.

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