Brian Aker On the Future of Databases

blackbearnh recommends an interview with MySQL Director of Technology Brian Aker that O'Reilly Media is running. Aker talks about the merger of MySQL with Sun, the challenges of designing databases for a SOA world, and what the next decade will bring as far as changes to traditional database architecture. Audio is also available. From the interview: "I think there's two things right now that are pushing the changes... The first thing that's going to push the basic old OLCP transactional database world, which... really hasn't [changed] in some time now — is really a change in the number of cores and the move to solid state disks because a lot of the... concept around database is the idea that you don't have access to enough memory. Your disk is slow, can't do random reads very well, and you maybe have one, maybe eight processors but... you look at some of the upper-end hardware and the mini-core stuff,... and you're almost looking at kind of an array of processing that you're doing; you've got access to so many processors. And well the whole story of trying to optimize... around the problem of random I/O being expensive, well that's not that big of a deal when you actually have solid state disks. So that's one whole area I think that will... cause a rethinking in... the standard Jim Gray relational database design."

Comments

Well

[CrispBH]

I couldn't... agree... more... I'd say that some... very valid... points... have been... raised.

Re:Well

[felipekk]

Very ... funny

Re:Well

[njcoder]

SOA = Shit-Outta-Acronyms

Re:Well

[deroby]

Wouldn't he rather say something along the lines of : damnedideloodi neighbour !

Re:Well

[liloldme]

Same Old Architecture

Dear Slashot

[CopaceticOpus]

Can we please have another loud, circular debate over which database is best? It's the only way your favorite database will ever win.

Thank you.

Re:Dear Slashot

[Anonymous Coward]

MyPostGroracleSQL Server 2008

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Get ready, aim, fire!

[Anonymous Coward]

Eagerly awaiting the gratuitous Sun trash talking! Every thread seems to devolve into Sun bashing (especially with regard to the MySQL acquisition). Everyone: Sun did not decide to close source MySQL. If anything they are pushing against it.

This IS news!

[Bluesman]

MySQL has people who are responsible for *designing* it? I'm shocked, Shocked.

Re:Too small

[Tablizer]

Solid state disks will never match with hard disks.

In 2025, this will be grouped with "640K RAM will always be more than enough." and you'll feel like such a Bill G.

Re:Admittedly....

[Samah]

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