tirsdag den 23. september 2008

Cloud Computing Leaving Relational Databases Behind


LINQ synes at have vendt op og ned på hvorledes man programatisk tilgår databasen. Set i forhold til web udvikling ville et JavaScript funderet program paradigme være et syvmileskridt i den rigtige retning. Der er idag simpelthen for mange åer at krydse inden man får hentet en spand vand.
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LINQ seems to have changed quite a lot how we programatically access the database. In the web developing cases a JavaScript supported data access paradigm would be a giant leap in the right direction. Todays data access is hard unneccessary work.
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None of these databases, Magnusson pointed out, are relational ones (He did point out one notable exception, a version MySQL tweaked for Web environments, called Drizzle.

These databases all have characteristics that make them uniquely suited to serving cloud computing-styled applications. Most of these databases can be run in distributed environments -- meaning that they can be spread out over multiple servers in multiple locations. None of them are transactional in nature. And they all sacrifice some advanced querying capability for faster performance. (In many cases, these databases can be queried using object calls, rather than SQL queries, which programmers are far more comfortable working with anyway.)

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