Actually he starts by dissing ACID, then proceeds to say it is essential, *if* done the way his NewSQL thingie does it.
"It would be easy to accuse Stonebraker of tooting his own horn" Narh! Perish the thought. He's NEVER done that!.... (anyone still believe in this guy other than the "next big thing" brigade?) -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx Mario Cariggi wrote,on my timestamp of 9/07/2011 6:50 AM:
"maintaining ACID compliance" [sic] is considered an overhead, weird! that is just what a DBMS has to provide to be considered a DBMS. Mario. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 17:28, Stephane Faroult<sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ -- Stephane Faroult RoughSea Ltd Konagora RoughSea Channel on Youtube
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