On 27/10/2013 8:42 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
Until I read Mr. Crayford's post it had thus never occurred to me that I should delegate list manipulations to either an HDB or an RDB; and I still do not find this idea attractive. Others may, however, find it attractive or even necessary if their programming skills have atrophied or were never more than rudimentary. Here, as elsewhere: À chacun son gout!
There are tens of thousands of applications out there that do find having the DB handle queues very attractive (MQ). A simple use case is a server side application for mobile devices that wants to handle push/pull notifications quickly. Another is a website that is keeping analytics based on a dynamically allocated key. Traditional RDBMs systems are going the way of the dodo in that space.
IMO, programming skills to develop applications should be kepth to the minimal. I would rather get the job done as quickly as possible then show off rubbing two sticks together when I could just use a match.
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