Re: Is a RDBMS needed?

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_roughsea.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:58:19 +0200
Message-ID: <4DF0ED9B.8020006_at_roughsea.com>

You will know for sure it's a bad idea when you see people storing the information that is critical to them in spreadsheets besides the official "data repository".

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On 06/09/2011 05:22 PM, Blake Wilson wrote:


> Here at the University of Western Ontario we are looking at replacing 

> our current Learning Management System. The current choices seem to be 

> similar in technology and infrastructure - web tier, load balancer, 

> application tier, back end RDBMS and some sort of content management 

> system for the course content.

>

> However, the next release of one of our options will not have a RDBMS 

> in the solution. It will be replaced by Apache Jackrabbit. The new 

> system will have everything// treated as content, including grades, 

> test questions and answers, discussion threads, syllabi, personal 

> profiles, chat messages, and so on.

>

> This seems like quite a departure from normal RDBMS based solutions. 

> Is this a good idea? Am I being a dinosaur by thinking that this is 

> not a good idea? Do I need to keep up with the times? Is this the 

> future of databases? This really looks to me like a return to design 

> of 20 years ago.

>

> Thanks,

> Blake Wilson




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