From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T06:24:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci

On 3/21/07, Michael Bevilacqua-Linn <michael.bevilacqualinn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/21/07, James Moore <jamesthepiper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We use relational databases as object stores because they're cheap
>> and easily available, not because they're good for the task.
> Really? What's better?

I've debunked Mr Moore's base premise in a separate post, but as far as
simply storing data -- not ensuring transactional integrity or any
number of other things that database management systems provide you --
absolutely nothing beats flat files on the filesystem where the
filesystem provides your indexing and can perform amazingly quickly as
long as you're working with fixed data.

The problem, of course, is that filesystems are hierarchical in nature
and if your data -- or at least your indexing scheme(s) can't be
represented hierarchically, you're toast.

-austin
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