Re: Oracle joins the NoSQL fray
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:56:27 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2011.10.07.00.56.27_at_gmail.com>
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:19:25 -0700, joel garry wrote:
> BLISS-86? Mladen, you made me throw up a little in my mouth.
> ftp://freevms.nvg.org/pub/vms/freevms/
It is done. VMS no longer makes any sense today. User base has eroded,
people have moved on. I'm not sure that I would even know how to write a
DCL script today. EDT without VTx keyboard doesn't make much sense. You
really need the "Gold" and PF keys. Had HP acted when it did make sense,
I dare say that there would be a completely different ecosystem in the IT
today. They also had a chance of killing ASM with the Polyserve. It there
was a viable and portable cluster file system, other than OCFS, ASM would
have not appeared. HP had an excellent clustering technology that they've
bought from DEC and Polyserve and they have completely squandered that
away. HP top executives seem like a dilbertian example of an incompetent
management. The company is getting smaller and smaller and it has bigger
and bigger executives. Funny thing is that they still have a very good
chance of making a splash. They have NUMA technology developed for
SuperDome. They could make their own fork of MySQL or Postgres, make it
into a decent database that could be really useful for large scale
projects and offer a cheap NUMA platform. NUMA can beat RAC, hands down,
no contest. You don't need any special clustering daemons, shared storage
or special communication adapters. NUMA box behaves like a big SMP box
and can have a fault tolerance. NUMA technology has the potential of
becoming a RAC killer because it's a natural way to extend the proven SMP
machines beyond just a few CPUs and has a naturally built in fault
tolerance.
AMD already has provisions for NUMA, SGI has already created a viable NUMA
platform with its Altix systems. Unfortunately, Altix 4700 is
exorbitantly expensive: http://tinyurl.com/3gt6qpe
SGI doesn't have prices at their website, but the announcement above
talks about the price in tens of millions of dollars. If a NUMA box is
offered at $20000 per blade, it could easily kill RAC, because it
outperforms it in every way. I'm not quite sure why nobody has done
anything like that.
However, based on the HP performance so far and the inclination to ruin great products they paid a lot of money for, I don't believe that they will be able to anything like that. For that. they would need a vision, and I think that they don't have any. I believe that they will be bought by somebody else 5 or 6 years in the future.
-- http://mgogala.byethost5.comReceived on Thu Oct 06 2011 - 19:56:27 CDT