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?
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jOOQ Newsletter September 2013
Subscribe to this newsletter here SQL Popularity and Controversy In the last newsletter, SQL popularity was well addressed by the tremendous feedback our articles received: 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers Make When Writing SQL 10 More Common Mistakes Java Developers Make When Writing SQL Together, the above articles have have reached out to more than … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter September 2013
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”