Re: Alternatives to ACID, non-serialized concurrent transactions?

From: tj bandrowsky <anakin_at_unitedsoftworks.com>
Date: 6 May 2003 16:37:11 -0700
Message-ID: <af3d9224.0305061537.137f3667@posting.google.com>

> I can help you with this one Todd. The answer is yes.

Why is it different? Has the part left the building or changed possession?

:-)

Still, it is a loaded question.

>
> Even if 1000 physicists agreed that the universe is not 'serializable' (and
> I'll have no idea if they would - last I heard was that they weren't really
> agreed on what time itself was), do you truly believe that there is mileage in
> not forcing a database to have exactly one value at each point in time,
> *whenever such a value is requested*?

I think physicists do agree that the universe is innately parallel.

Now, forcing a database to have a value at one point in time is entirely valuable, otherwise, we wouldn't all be doing it. What I'm asking if there is not some framework that is not actually more valuable. Why be so indignant at that? Received on Tue May 06 2003 - 18:37:11 CDT