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[xml-dev] has been down for almost 4 days, and Arjun is the first to blat out opinions and discredit a hypothetical situation intended to help convey the concept of needed speed in XML processing.
What happened to take the OASIS list servers down for 4 days? Arjun, blat about that. Brian > From: arjun.ray@verizon.net > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org > Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:37:12 -0400 > Subject: [xml-dev] Big Data and XML > > [Repost: the xml-dev list manager swallowed the earlier version; in > fact, the list seemed down for several days.] > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:53:21 -0400, I wrote: > > | Someone wants to blat out a terabyte of mostly unchanged data every > | 15 minutes, in XML? This is demented. > > In fact, there is something very artificial - or perhaps, symptomatic > of goldenhammeritis - in all the examples or use cases or scenarios of > XML for "big data" that I've seen so far. > > This particular example is no different: > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 08:16:00 -0600, Brian Aberle <xmlboss@live.com> > wrote: > > : Suppose you have a list of "foos". Suppose that list is very very > : long. 1 Terabyte. Suppose that you get updated XML source of that > : list every 15 minutes. In the huge list, [...] > > A list, as a unitary XML document? Thousands upon millions upon > gajillions of "foos", all piled into a _single_ XML instance? > > For the love of mike, why? > > What was wrong with a _list_ of those gajillions of "foos", each an > XML instance by itself (or in whatever format floats your boat)? > > You could then enrich that _list_ by having each item encapsulated > with meta data - such as a unique id, payload size, etc - to optimize > caching or whatever other high-speed, low-latency, humunous-throughput > requirement you have. > > : some "foos" are new, some foos() have been updated. > > What about the ones that have been deleted, or expired, or otherwise > bitbucketed? > > If this is state of the art in protocols for "big data", and why XML > is touted as a "solution", I can't say that I'm impressed. > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php |