So why do all serious RDBMS systems have functionality for dynamically partitioning data based on the relevance of the data?
Big databases are often set up to (for instance) have the last month's data on fast storage, and older data on slower/cheaper storage.
I wish people would stop comparing OpenOffice to FireFox. Especially when it goes like "hey if FireFox can do it, why can't OpenOffice? Surely they're a bunch of slackers, blah blah". Comparing a full-blown office suite to a webbrowser is anything but fair, just writing out the features of OOo compared to those of FireFox has to be a 100:1 ratio, and I'm not even talking about code complexity. It's like comparing Matlab to the windows calculator.
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So why do all serious RDBMS systems have functionality for dynamically partitioning data based on the relevance of the data? Big databases are often set up to (for instance) have the last month's data on fast storage, and older data on slower/cheaper storage.
It also doesn't have the privacy concerns Google Sync has, because you can configure it to save to and load from any FTP host.
I wish people would stop comparing OpenOffice to FireFox. Especially when it goes like "hey if FireFox can do it, why can't OpenOffice? Surely they're a bunch of slackers, blah blah". Comparing a full-blown office suite to a webbrowser is anything but fair, just writing out the features of OOo compared to those of FireFox has to be a 100:1 ratio, and I'm not even talking about code complexity. It's like comparing Matlab to the windows calculator.