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Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
jpkunst sends us to Computerworld for a look at Michael Stonebraker's opinion that RDBMSs "should be considered legacy technology." Computerworld adds some background and analysis to Stonebraker's comments, which appear in a new blog, The Database Column. Stonebraker co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology while a researcher at UC Berkeley in the early 1970s. He predicts that "column stores will take over the [data] warehouse market over time, completely displacing row stores."
Looks like IDG (ComputerWorld) is really hitting Slashdot HARD, either that or they have a deal with Slashdot. Here's a partial list of the shills that regularly show up and have almost 100% article acceptance rates: inkslinger77 narramissic jcatcw Looks like they spread out the work over a few shill user accounts, which is to be expected. If it's all OK and everything with the corporate ownership of Slashdot to be played by IDG, I suppose that's their business, but one would hope that they are actually getting PAID for being part of IDG's advertising program. And of course there should be disclosure so that visitors to Slashdot realize they are reading advertisements and not an article submitted by a "real" user...
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Can I use this article as an excuse to rant about how much I hate working with SQL?
I'm working in python mostly and when I have to touch SQL it is like a... a... something really nasty.
Can someone please declare SQL legacy technology? pretty please?
True, but you should keep in mind that bratac always tries to sacrifice himself even when there is no need...he thinks hes a hero, he wants to kill himself even when the battle is over. its pathetic...and he thinks hes some great leader, he knows nothing, hes almost as pathetic as tealc. If he wants to sacrifice himself, he should throw himself in front of his true God, HAMMOND.
How on earth can anyone call C-Store open source? It hasn't featured on Slashdot, there are no Freshmeat records, it's not part of Fedora Core, the author hasn't declared himself a god - I mean, these are vital features present in all true F/L/OSS projects!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)