On 1/8/2014 2:21 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
I lurk one of the postgresql dev lists and they are constantly making
new commits and there always seem to be new features being added, most
of which I haven't even started playing with. But I think I hear what
you're saying. It's an older technology that's been pretty well
explored and polished. Probably not much low hanging fruit.
I haven't played with the NoSQL stuff yet. Probably because I find
sql and it's super sets to be quite useful. One of you posted this a
while back. Still cracks me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Or, try this abso-f2(*&$ng-lutely incredible commentary on one of the
currently-fashionable
methodologies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvks70PD0Rs
or languages (and it's true that php developers never get groupies) ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sygm9x9sBEo
or trying to figure out the motives, background, IQ, or batshite
attitudes of OMG I WAS THERE! I KNOW THAT GUY! I KNOW A HUNDRED OF THOSE
GUYS!!! THEY WORK AT MOTHER BELL!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OstpOap9KU&list=PL1FB3417C560AC0B7
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OstpOap9KU&list=PL1FB3417C560AC0B7>
(and, yes, I almost soiled myself several times when listening to this).
Bill, who is going back to the Scary Devil Monastery ...
P.S. (With apologies to a certain BLU member who uses that method ...)
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:25 AM,<[email protected]> wrote:
'm not saying they are "dead" as in no one is using them, I'm more
thinking they are dead with regard to feature development.
PostgreSQL and MySQL and the commercial databases just seem less
"important" these days with things like MongoDB and Cassandra. Don't get
me wrong, I think the NoSQL crowd are fairly delusional because eventually
these NoSQL databases will all have SQL front ends and ACID
characteristics are vital to any real database. (but I digress)
Traditional ACID SQL databases have more or less peaked. Data stores like
the NoSQL ilk are pretty much done feature wise as well. Stonebreaker's
next project is getting very little traction.
Have databases become just another "word processor" like application where
almost all the standard offerings are really good enough? I mean, jeez,
tomcat, apache, php, etc. are all jus good enough and there are no new
"must have" features as well.
I guess the real question is what's left or are infrastructure components
pretty much done?
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