Well he didn't comment on SQL for JSON per se but saying that RDBMS are sub-optimal for everything is a tacit repudiation of SQL is it not?
He buys into the notion that there will be swarms of data scientists doing clever things with data which will need a different language. I am continually surprised that people this smart believe that there is such a pool of people to draw from. He is right that statistical packages suck at data management but that won't isn't going to deter the R community. Do you see XQuery fitting anywhere in this vision. It has potential as a pipeling technology as does for that matter SQL. I think it will always be problematic to do analytics on the source data because it is too dirty. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:51 AM, daniela florescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Ihe, > > > I had discussions with Michael Stonebreaker for 20 years about about the > fact that > XML “exists” or not. With Jim Gray too, before he disappeared. They were > both extremely > supportive for me, yet were both thinking that I am crazy to waste my > research career on XML. > > Stonebreaker’s opinion: he doesn’t believe that XML “exists” in industry. > > So he will not mention it, because it doesn’t exist :-) > > But you have to remember that Stonebreaker is a database person. Probably > he will not > understand the facet of XML which is “XML as documents”. It took me and > the other database > people involved in XQuery years before we swallowed it. (Don Chamberlin of > SQL fame > famously once said “who in the world would care about such a corner case > as mixed content !?"). > > Don’t blame the database people that they don’t “get” XML. On one hand, it > has never been explained > to them properly. > > And again, Stonebreaker, being a database person, he will look at “XML as > data” aspect of the story. > And this today is INDEED non-existing in industry, or almost. Or, when t > is, it is mostly for log analysis. > > ============ > > JSON will completely change the landscape, in surprising ways, that none > of us can predict. > > And no, I trust that Michael Stonebreaker is too smart to believe that SQL > is a solution to process JSON. > > But time will tell. > > Best regards > Dana > > > > > > On Jun 23, 2015, at 12:15 AM, Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K0SWs1mOD0 > > By implication it puts the kibosh on SQL as the basis of a solution for > the future. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk > > >
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