[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
>> Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but in Gray's article, the
>> vision does not seem to include a middle tier. The database becomes
>> the center of the universe, and pretty much everything we associate
>> with the middle tier becomes part of the database. The database also
>> takes on some of the functionality traditionally associated with an
>> operating system.
>>
>> How likely is this? Do users want that level of centralization?
>>
>> Jonathan
>
>
> Well one part of the vision won't fly at all as far as I can see.
>
> That is the idea that file systems should be subsumed by databases.
> The trouble with this is
> that people *need* to be able to take a disk from one dead machine and
> plug it into a living
> machine and access that data, as you can do with file systems. The
> more difficult this
> becomes (e.g. if the binary format for the database is not fixed
> readable between different
> versions of the OS) then the less practical it becomes. (This is a
> different issue to backups:
> people use backups when data storage fails, and they use
> disktransplants when motherboards
> fail or are superceded.) So just giving a virtual FAT32 or whatever
> as a compatability mode
> doesn't seem sellable: the DBMS stuff needs to be tacked on as a layer
> above the file system,
> which isn't very satisfactory.
from a different conversation, but derived from this one....
just wandering if anyone has tried storing the dom as directory entries
in a unix/linux file system? it's made to do this sort of thing really fast.
rick
>
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an
> initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org>
>
> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription
> manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
>
>
> !DSPAM:4279c227170341369226058!
>
begin:vcard
fn:Rick Marshall
n:Marshall;Rick
email;internet:rjm@zenucom.com
tel;cell:+61 411 287 530
x-mozilla-html:TRUE
version:2.1
end:vcard
|
