Cool point, I didn't know about Ebay using Hibernate of Java. On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:39 PM, sbohlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It seems to me that we could broaden the definition of 'a success > story' to include not only success with *N*Hibernate but also with > Hibernate in the Java world. Since on its face the 'resistence' to > adopting NHibernate would seem to be much the same as with Hibernate, > it seems that a success story with Hibernate would be nearly as > valuable as a success story with NHibernate. > > And for that, one need look no further than EBay, poster child for > scalable and resilient systems. EBay has built their entire auction- > handling infrastructure atop Hibernate for Java and you can't really > get a whole lot bigger than the 3rd or 4th busiest URL on the internet > in re: applicability to big systems. I routinely point critics who > say 'ORM can't scale' or 'ORM can't be used in a high-performance > context' to EBay as a success story for the implementation of an ORM > in a high-volume, high-performance, high-scalabilty situation and once > they discover that EBay uses HIbernate and that NHibernate offers the > same capabilities in the .NET world, it tends to shut them up. There > are still all the OSS licensing concerns for any company to deal with, > but the EBay example tends to quiet the technical side of the critics' > arguments when I deal with our clients. > > To be sure, EBay has spent significant time tweaking the heck out of > their Hibernate implementation in order to ensure they maintain their > desired performance metrics (and they are using things like Hibernate > Shards for which there is no correllary -- that I am aware of -- in > NHibernate), but their success does prove its entirely possible to do > big systemds with Hibernate. > > For some detail on EBay's infrastructre (which is REALLY interesting > to consider for anyone building even a smaller system but for which > performance and scalability are still concerns, check out this episode > of the always-valuable Software Engineering Radio: > > > http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-09/episode-109-ebay039s-architecture-principles-randy-shoup > > -Steve B. > > On Oct 12, 9:07 am, "Tuna Toksöz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > As you may notice > > here< > http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers/browse_thread/thread/7e05fa561...>, > > we want NH to be prefered over other alternatives and one way to show > > this > > is to have some names of firms used it successfuly. To say the truth, > there > > are _many_. But none of them show up when you do a search. > > > > In short, we need success stories to collect, if you have one, please > don't > > hesitate to send it here. > > > > Your contributions are all welcome. > > > > -- > > Tuna Toksöz > > > > Typos included to enhance the readers attention! > > > -- Tuna Toksöz Typos included to enhance the readers attention! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
