Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
I don't think this one point should be decisive by itself. But I don't think it should be given zero weight either.
Agreed (in case that wasn't clear).
Note that one of the clients in question is the offline-enabled mobile version of GMail. I think this demonstrates that the SQL-based Database Storage can serve the needs of an advanced and polished Web application. In addition, we have a rough demonstration that it is practically implementable in a modern Web engine.
Both quite true.
One clear problem identified despite these examples is that we do not have a precise enough spec for the query language to make truly independent interoperable implementations possible. It seems to me that significantly redesigning database storage is not necessary to address this.
Yes; the two issues are somewhat orthogonal, in my opinion. -Boris
