Re: Is a RDBMS needed?

  • From: Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:51:06 -0700 (PDT)

BTW, Nuno is the source of my quote. I appreciate him pointing that out to me 
so 
I can give him proper credit.

Cheers all!

RF


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From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 5:30:26 PM
Subject: Re: Is a RDBMS needed?

This has to do with the old debate of special purpose software versus general 
purpose.

If you NEVER want to use that data for ANYTHING else, or if you don't mind 
paying a lot to a team of developers to do ANYTHING you need out of that data, 
then the non-rdbms solution is perfectly valid.

If you want that data to be available to other sub-systems on short notice and 
without needing to engage developers to write a specialized interface, then a 
non-rdbms solution is totaly unadvised.  A general purpose rdbms will be 
accessible with ease by ANY other team or special interest, without yet another 
major development effort being undertaken.

That debate was made many years ago, and the solutions have been available 
since 
then.

You chose a specialized - I believe the term in vogue nowadays is "bespoke" but 
I refuse to use it - data management storage architecture then you get a very 
good match for that special application and no match for anything else.

You want something more general that can be easily accessed and modified by any 
number of additional applications without additional development costs - not 
necessarily specified up front - then you use a general purpose data management 
product. You pay a hit on performance and you gain flexibility.

Horses for courses.

-- Cheers
Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Blake Wilson wrote,on my timestamp of 10/06/2011 1:22 AM:
> 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.
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