Re:What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka
by tomnipotent on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:36PM
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You're conflating DBMS with RDBMS.
I interpreted the OP as DBMS=database, which absolutely includes application code that stores and retrieves data in proprietary formats.
Even a linked list mmap'd to disk can be a database, just maybe not a very good one.
Re:What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka
by eternalban on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:42PM
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A RDBMS is simply a Relational Database Management System. A quick tour of CS history reveals ancient curiosities such as Hierarchical Database Management Systems. And there is more:
Re:What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka
by tomnipotent on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:44PM
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There are many kinds of databases. Graph, key/value, relational, hierarchal etc. That doesn't change the fact that any app that writes code to store and retrieve data is creating their own database or using someone else's.
Re:What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka
by eternalban on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:54PM
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There are many kinds of data models. A DBMS is a DBMS, and typically a specific DBMS supports a specific data model. A log structured file is at most a data store.
To be fair this is a somewhat fuzzy categorization (DBMS, DB, Data Store) and it can cause confusion. An DBMS is a system, just like it says right on the acronym tin. A DBMS is a system that provides capabilities such DDL, DML, auxiliary processes, etc. to manage a database. There are various data models, e.g. a triple store, for databases, but the data model X is a orthogonal to XDBMS.
Since we're discussing misunderstandings in the community, it should be pointed out that a Database Management System (DBMS) is not merely a database, to say nothing of a data store. Oracle, Postgres, et al are genuine "DBMS". ATM you are very likely putting together a data store in your app code.