RE: Death of the database
- From: "Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)" <Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>, <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, "Oracle-L Freelists" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:07:09 -0400
I guess I see it differently - or I see a compromise position.
For some industry, this might make perfect sense. The supermarket
inventory would work out just fine. Think of robot RFID readers that
somehow travel down the aisles taking inventory.
But I don't see this happening for strictly information that we store in
databases. Can Unemployment Insurance Applications, or Health Insurance
info work this way? This is strictly data - not inventory. It would
have to be one large chip in the back of our hand to keep everything
about a person "on hand".
Still a very interesting article.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:57 AM
To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: RE: Death of the database
As usual Gartner is full of manure in the first place. Sure RFID tags
can be attached to cans of soup, and counted, if you want to pay a
person to run up and down the isles of the store to inventory what is on
the shelf, never mind what's in the back room. These guys seem to
forget that an RFID tag is only useable within a couple of feet away,
depending on size. Whereas the database is accessible from anywhere and
has the larger view. GOD, I can just see the buyer at Shaws, Hanaford,
or Stop&Shop calling every store to go scan their shelves for a soup
count before he buys more! He's got all of that data at his fingertips
today, plus what's on the truck and warehouse. Analysts have got to be
the greatest ostrich's in existence.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:40 AM
To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: Death of the database
Anyone seen their workload reduced due to unstructured data?
Death of the database
As improvements in networking technologies lead to real-time
connectivity to any data, that data will be best kept closest
to its natural source rather than at the intersection of a
database's row and tuple. At last week's Symposium ITxpo, Gartner
analysts backed up that premise with two examples: an RFID-tag
equipped can of soup, and a chip embedded in the back of a human
hand. Must data always be stored -- or cached -- in a database?
If not, it's time for DBAs and BI vendors to to reinvent themselves.
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Jared Still
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