Re:Is the Relational Database Doomed?
by gaius on Friday February 13, 2009 @06:57AM
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"Sharding" is shorthand for "MySQL's concurrent write performance is abysmal, let's spend more on trying to make it work than it would have cost to just buy Oracle".
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Not too mention that sharding probably is one of those things which might seem clever when your database engine doesn't even have hash joins.
I mean, when your DB can't join large result-sets quickly and efficiently in process, why care about the loss of joinability when you spread your data across several servers?
Re:Is the Relational Database Doomed?
by kingkongrevenge on Friday February 13, 2009 @10:26AM
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DB2 is free up to something like eight gig of memory usage. I don't understand why people are so wedded to MySQL and Postgres now that DB2 and Oracle have free and very cheap versions.
Re:Is the Relational Database Doomed?
by mattmcknight on Friday February 13, 2009 @03:12PM
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I can't speak to DB2, but I am really sick of the weird complexity of Oracle. It's power comes at a fairly high cost of complexity, whatever the pricing structure looks like.
It sure is mired in complexity. I am an Oracle programmer by day and once you put it under load there are some pile of bugs that start to show up! That said, Oracle can do so e amazing work, if you have people on hand who can make it do it!