Nigel Hamilton wrote:
> Hi Lyle,
>
> Your email gave me flashbacks to when I gave tutorials on
> distributed databases at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
> At the time Oracle were very happy to provide free copies of their
> DDBMS software for the uni labs. We had an "east" and "west" cluster
> set up and there were all sorts of tricky
> update/locking/concurrency/partitioning problems with interesting
> schema design decisions as a result. No doubt your lecturer has got
> some interesting exam/assignment questions lined up ... ;-)
I'm very sure he has, got a lot of reading to do :/
> Lately, I've been appreciating more and more the need to consider
> 'time' in schema design as it applies to the dimensions of interest in
> your database.
Could you expand on what you mean by this?
> DBMSs traditionally managed 'the tyranny of disk seek times but
> thanks to the march of Moore's law - we're free - to go and dive into
> deep endless RAM pools! ;-) ... err ... maybe not quite yet.
> But it's interesting to watch the NoSQL movement develop and other
> non-relational ways of dealing with large distributed data sets [2].
Interesting indeed. NoSQL sounds like it might be suitable for a future
project... although I'm not sure how just yet :)
Lyle
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