While RedHat and Google have been dumping MySQL for MariaDB, there's actually a third, much lesser-known option for MySQL-oriented database folks in the RDBMS market: CUBRID. One of CUBRID's main goals is also to lure MySQL users away from Oracle by offering many equivalent syntax elements that are available in either the MySQL or Oracle … Continue reading CUBRID: A Lesser-Known Korean OSS Database Gem
Tag: RDBMS
The Premature Return to SQL
In online communities, the NoSQL topic (much like the ORM topic) is a guarantee to stir emotions. Many emotions are stirred by evangelists on either side for ideological or marketing reasons. Here's an interesting post by Alex Popescu, a passionate NoSQL and polyglot persistence evangelist, claiming that the recent trend to return to SQL is … Continue reading The Premature Return to SQL
Why do We Need RDBMS?
There was this recent Quora question about why we need RDBMS: Why not just use text files? What can RDBMS do that a simple text file cannot? Or, why not use several different text files to represent different tables? Heh. Let's challenge that through a witty comparison (also given as an answer to the above … Continue reading Why do We Need RDBMS?
Column Stores: Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks
Prof. Michael Stonebraker is a controversial visionary, who is known for nothing less than Ingres, Postgres, Vertica, Streambase, Illustra, VoltDB, SciDB, besides being a renowned MIT professor. My recent blog post about Stonebraker's talk at the EPFL (host university to Prof. Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala Language and Co-Founder of Typesafe) has triggered a very interesting … Continue reading Column Stores: Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks
MIT Prof. Michael Stonebraker: “The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong”
A very interesting talk about the future of DBMS was recently given at EPFL by MIT Professor and VoltDB Co-founder and CTO Michael Stonebraker, who also gave us Ingres and Postgres. In a bit less than one hour, he explains his views with respect to the three main pillars of database management systems: OLAP / Data warehouses … Continue reading MIT Prof. Michael Stonebraker: “The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong”
A map of all those new NoSQL, NewSQL, post-SQL, structured, unstructured database options that came out over the past year
So you want to go with the flow and implement your next application on top of some NoSQL, NotJustSQL, NewSQL, AlmostSQL, SQL++, NextGenSQL, and what not, just to be sure not to miss out on some of the latest developments in the data business? Here's a little map to guide you through the jungle of … Continue reading A map of all those new NoSQL, NewSQL, post-SQL, structured, unstructured database options that came out over the past year
Suggestions for the Java, SQL and jOOQ Blog
This blog is picking up momentum and thus, relevance. With jOOQ, I have come a long way, working with Java, JDBC, and SQL. I have solved many problems that are worth discussion, and I know quite a few things about various RDBMS, and how they compare with each other. Some examples: Database Schema Navigation RDBMS … Continue reading Suggestions for the Java, SQL and jOOQ Blog