Re: No future for DB2

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:29:53 -0400
Message-ID: <3ktpm5F100gp5U1@individual.net>

Noons wrote:

> Serge Rielau wrote:
> 

>>There isn't one major DBMS that hasn't realized that XQuery is a must
>>have. Oracle 10gR2 has it, SQL Server 2005 has it, Viper has it.
> "must have" != "used", Serge.
True enough. time will tell..

>>The hierarchical DBMS of the world will stick around
>>The RDBMS will stick around
>>and this new breed of DBMS will find their place.
>>All that is part of Information Management.
> You're right, of course. Except for the volumes. Again, time will tell.
Being a relation person myself I'm not speaking what I wish to become true, I speak of what I fear to become true.

I do see ISVs which handle all their (fat) client side work in XML and XQuery and all the DBMS does is store the shredded data. Ironically this is quite similar to what the research DBMS (KRISYS) I worked on at University did.
These ISVs save a lot of complexity by not having to shred and rebuild the documents.

IMHO in the early days of IT (when I was playing in the dirt...) the database ruled and the apps were made to fit. Nowadays the trend is that the app rules and the DBMS is made to fit. T'is what I see anyways...

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab

Received on Thu Jul 28 2005 - 23:29:53 CDT