Re: No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:28:08 +0200
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> Goulet, Richard wrote:
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It's simply a matter of people who want to forget history and repeat the
> mistakes of the past.
>
Yes, so true.
I always wonder why this keeps on happening in our profession.
And not, lets say, in civil engineering.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com
> wrote:
> Well, well, this dark horse has risen yet again. There were many
> similar items like this over the years. B-tree libraries that allowed one to
> imbed a database into any application. HP Turbo-Image that did a super
> b-tree setup. Worked very fast, but was a pain in that uncommitted data was
> visible every where immediately, row locking made it a real problem for
> anyone else, reliability was an issue as well, and don't even talk about
> changing the database structure as that took a lot of downtime.
>
> The ideas that they presented & yes I've been listening to the
> presentation they made are OLD HAT and simply the desires of a web/java
> developer to want to control their own destiny. Problem is that once that
> person dies, gets layed off, or even fired your stuck with a non-compliant
> application and database that no one understands or knows how to maintain.
> I guess some would call it job justification, by subversive action in my
> mind. Then, of course comes the idea of data sharing. These apps will not
> be able to do so without bridging software that surely isn't going to be
> available without the original creator. OH, yes, there is always the
> problem of when one of those "commodity" servers decides to crash and burn.
> If you believe that the guy/gal who built this nightmare is going to fix it
> your severely mistaken. It's wonderful how they can come up with
> justification for what they want to do until it goes production and all hell
> breaks loose at which time they know nothing about it.
>
> I'm also rather puzzled by their comparison between their nosql
> alternatives and MySql's write capability. If you look on MySql's web site
> they plainly tell you that their not the worlds fastest database at writes,
> only reads. Kinda like comparing the abilities of a car and a motorcycle to
> back up a hill.
>
> Short answer, we've all been there, done that before and are still
> smarting from the end results. It's simply a matter of people who want to
> forget history and repeat the mistakes of the past.
>
>
>
> *Dick Goulet***
> Senior Oracle DBA
> PAREXEL International
>
>
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Sunil Kanderi
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:47 PM
> *To:* Oracle-L_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
>
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9135086
> Interesting article in ComputerWorld about the NoSQL movement. Most of my
> DBA experience has been primarily related to large ERP applications and
> recently had to start supporting Java Development environment and it almost
> feels like a totally different world. Looking at ORM tools like Hibernate,
> which is very popular with Java crowd, it baffles me as to how little SQL
> one really needs to know to get by with and their general aversion to
> understanding SQL. At this point these NoSQL alternatives do not seem to
> apply to the enterprises, but mostly to Web 2.0 based applications. However
> things could change and was curious to know what the broader Oracle
> community thinks about these alternatives especially with Cloud computing
> and databases on the cloud, fast catching on within the enterprises. At my
> work place, we are migrating all out hardware/database infrastructure to a
> hosted platform and I wouldn't be surprised if within the next three years
> all our applications being totally supported on a cloud platform. This will
> undoubtedly have a big impact on the infrastructure folks, be it OS/hardware
> or Database.
>
> Here is a good discussion on the article sited above.
>
> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=683807
>
>
> Best,
> Sunil.
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilkanderi
>
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