begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:04:50PM -0800: [snip] > NO!--NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! > > More brain damage has been inflicted due to that belief than any other > in computer science. /me cheers
> A filesystem is *NOT* a special case of a database. A filesystem has > very different semantics and performance goals than a database. A > database is strongly transactional and geared toward throughput. A > filesystem is weakly transactional and has some latency constraints. > There are lots of others--multidimensionality vs. limited > dimensionality; query restructurability vs. enforced constraint; etc. > > Whenever anybody says: "X is just a special case of a database" they are > almost always wrong. ...and/or a database weenie. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
