Re: Is a RDBMS needed?

  • From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Rui.Amaral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:20:55 -0300

Well, you could save a few bucks in TDPO and Oracle Licensing...

Now, given that most of the people in this list are DBA, I think we are
biased against nonsensical nondatabases like that. Oh, and java persistence
sucks, specially when they try to skip the database altogether. They should
stick to mobile devices and leave the real programs to real languages.

Ok, rant over.

That being said, i expect that by removing the RDBMS you'd get a slight
performance increase when dealing with media, but I'm not sure it's the best
option when dealing with data (reinveinting the wheel, anyone?) such as
grades, personal information and such.

hth
Alan.-


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Amaral, Rui <Rui.Amaral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  found something from Berkley that adds to this:
>
> http://ray.media.berkeley.edu/blog/?p=99
>
> Sounds like being on it's own really isn't a good idea as they describe.
>
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> Rui Amaral
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:53 AM
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> *To:* dasebw@xxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* RE: Is a RDBMS needed?
>
>  Does anyone have this running in a production environment?  Can you get
> references?
>
>
>
> It’s nice to be cutting edge (sometimes).  But do you really want to be the
> only one using this product in a prod environment and discover all the bugs
> yourself?
>
>
>
> Are there any third party tools that support this?
>
>
>
> Sorry.  Been around a bit.  It may be the best thing since sliced bread.
> But if the industry does not go this way, you are hanging out on a lone
> single branch.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Blake Wilson
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:23 AM
> *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Is a RDBMS needed?
>
>
>
> 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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