Re: Alternatives to ACID, non-serialized concurrent transactions?
Date: 8 May 2003 07:11:43 -0700
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> We are all doing it so it must be right? In this case what we are all doing is
> right, but beware, your line of argument can be a logical fallacy.
Most definately I agree. We are all doing it so it must be right can be used to prove the effectiveness of the current method, but not establish its rank with other methods. We could all be dragging blocks around on skids, which kinda works, but Sumerian Joe could still show up with the wheel.
> OK, that is potentially a fair enough question. Just not one that I think is
> an interesting one.
Fair enough.
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> However, it occurs to me that a 'logically distributed database' could be
> exactly such a framework. I would imagine that one critical logical difference
> between a 'logically distributed database' and a 'logically single
> database', is the fact that the former would not necessarily have one value at
> every given point in time.
Meter loggers fall into this category. I smell an idea in this. Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 16:11:43 CEST