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Cloudscape Gains Momentum

Posted by Hemos on from the ibms-big-move dept.

A reader writes: "There's been a lot of bits written recently about the growth of Open Source databases; as well as IBM's patent gift, as their release of the Java database Cloudscape. There's a contest running on SourceForge.net around Cloudscape; download and run with it." SF.net is part of OSTG, like Slashdot.

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  1. Wrong language, wrong thing. by InterruptDescriptorT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A Java database?

    Isn't that a little bit like writing a Fast Fourier Transform in LISP?

    There are lots of things that Java is perfectly suited for. Databases are not one of those things.

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    1. Re:Wrong language, wrong thing. by sporty · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why not? If it's fast enough, and it works, it'd be good for java embeded applications and/or stuff that uses a database for scratch-work. It could also be used instead of complex data structures in memory that require massaging to get anything out of.

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    2. Re:Wrong language, wrong thing. by sonofagunn · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Have fun embedding your C database inside a Java server app (I think you've missed the point of Cloudscape).

  2. But that is not embeddable by MarkEst1973 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Your post was certainly informative in that others might have learned about a new tool and are looking at Sql Anywhere, but to be fair, the purpose of that tool is different than Cloudscape's.

    Embedding a database in an application can be very useful, such as in a desktop GUI where you cannot rely on network communication or maybe don't want to bother with a client/server environment.

    I'd certainly consider Java/Cloudscape for a desktop db-backed application over anything built in Access.

    As always, fit the tool to the job, not the job to the tool.