I bow to you. I've been on this list for a long time and figured my 20 years of development and engineering experience might be of assistance and for the first time I offered it. From now on, you should answer all the questions.
-unsubscribe On Apr 5, 2013 6:05 PM, "John Redford" <[email protected]> wrote: > Anthony Caravello writes: > > > > Queuing systems aren't really new or 'technofrippery'. In-memory FIFO > stacks > > are ridiculously fast compared to transaction safe rdbms' for this simple > > purpose. Databases incur a lot of overhead for wonderful things that > don't aid > > this cause. > > No one said queuing systems are new. If you intend to mistake an instance > for a class, then you shall only address your mistake. > > Indeed, a purely in-memory system is fast. In the relational database > world > this is generally called a "temporary table", and it can be used to > efficiently process information between phases that require persistence. > > I am not planning to explain everything about RDBMS technology that people > might do well to understand. > > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

