Re: Anyone with experience with MMOG and databases?
- From: jungwolf <spatenau@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:27:00 -0500
On 8/12/05, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
<Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You keep saying that "Oracle is quite non-standard, I don't think it a good
> idea to develop a new system in Oracle."
>
> Non-standard to what? Ansi?
I'm curious as well. I know the World of Warcraft MMOG uses Oracle.
I don't know the implementation details but if it is like the Diablo
II servers then only certain actions require a committed transaction
in real-time. Otherwise the servers keep game information in memory
(cache/in-memory database/whatever) and only periodically save
character information. Ask the user community how many times a server
crash has resulted in the loss of that One Great Item...
> And advising people on this list *not to* develop anything new in Oracle is
> quite bizarre. You do realize that this is an Oracle list, right?
On the other hand, just because we (the list) know hammers doesn't
mean all problems are nails. I think it is perfectly valid to suggest
other tools when the application would be better served by them.
Steven
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