Steve Yegge's predictions from 2004

Re:Steve Yegge's predictions from 2004 by yummyfajitas on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:13AM (#1095189)

From his article: Many common types of data are intrinsically heirarchical and loosely structured, so storing them in an RDBMS can be difficult. Examples: books, articles, and most other written documentation. HTML. Search indexes. Filesystems. Game worlds. Classical music scores. It's just easier to model some things this way.

I don't see how to interpret this as anything other than a document database. Could you explain to me?

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Re:Steve Yegge's predictions from 2004 by pvg on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @06:45PM (#1096579)

Sure. Let's take another look at the article -

"Prediction #1: XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011."

It's still completely wrong. I don't see how to interpret it as anything other than wrong. Yes we can sift carefully through it to find some way in which it's kind of, maybe right, sort of. We're discussing Steve Yegge's actual predictions not whether filesystems or the Library of Congress are really a special case of document databases.

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Re:Steve Yegge's predictions from 2004 by yummyfajitas on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:14PM (#1097049)

You are arguing syntax, I'm arguing semantics. {"foo" : 25, "bar" : 32} is just not significantly different from <foo>25</foo><bar>32</bar> in my view (and I imagine in his view as well).

I think we should just agree to disagree on this one.

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