By bloid
via regdeveloper.co.uk
Published: Apr 25 2008 / 19:10
The relational database - a mainstay of enterprise computing for 25 years - has been under siege. New approaches to data storage are threatening the RDBMS and precipitating what database guru Mike Stonebraker and others described recently as a "group grope" to find a new database engine.
This week, though, could mark the beginning of the backlash, with people defending the RDBMS against fashionable, quick-and-dirty products such as Amazon's SimpleDB, Apache's CouchDB, NextDB and Google's App Engine Datastore.
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jtheory replied ago:
I really feel for the poor straw men out there, getting slaughtered.
It's so difficult to choose which "side" of this "argument" I should be on, since when you break it down they're both saying the same damned thing. Fancy that, the ultra-scalable datastores sacrifice some things to achieve that, and may not be suitable for many projects.
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