I didn't intend to be contentious. I have absolutely nothing against databases and am only giving my experience, and Oracles experience, in relation to this topic which I am greatly interested in. I think I can convince the group/list this is not a good start.
Everyones thoughts could be stated and duly noted. However, I will go off list if you like. I am not here for heat, only light. My apologies. Sent from my iPhone Michael McGrady Principal investigator AF081_028 SBIR Chief Architect Topia Technology, Inc Work 1.253.572.9712 Cel 1.253.720.3365 On Dec 16, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Sim IJskes - QCG <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16-12-10 16:11, Mike McGrady wrote: >> The experience in the industry is that writing directly to a database >> is too slow and reaches either a cost or a performance ceiling . The >> prime candidates for a tuple-space application in the real world is >> lost, I think, if you write to a database and not to at least a front >> end cache. CISCO, Oracle, etc are all going, going, gone in this >> direction. It's not an option in our case. >> >>> Apart from that, it would be very interesting to see how a COTS DB >>> backed javaspace whould behave in practice. And it could be the >>> first step into producing alternative persistence mechanisms. In >>> the early stage it would be comfortable to know we don't have to >>> prove the correctness of a cots-db. In a later stage we can always >>> look at lifting the transaction based blockstorage layer from derby >>> or another java based db for instance. > > As you have quoted an email i've send, i will assume that the quoting order > got somehow confused. > > Mike, i hope that you are not confusing the process vs the outcome. Driving > down the issue that you don't like databases, should not influence a > committers freedom to dabble with the idea. > > A relational database for you is out of the question, noted. Shall we move on? > > Gr. Sim > > > -- > QCG, Software voor het MKB, 071-5890970, http://www.qcg.nl > Quality Consultancy Group b.v., Leiderdorp, Kvk Den Haag: 28088397
