Darren New wrote:
> I must admit I have to giggle and shake my head at how many people doing 
> work on new database technologies try really hard to make it sound like 
> old database technologies only better.

Maybe because - you know - the old database technologies are already 
well-understood?

Have you notied how Intel keep designing these new-fangled 
super-mega-huper chips... and making them binary-compatible with an 
ancient non-RISC design from, what, 20 years ago? I mean, a modem Intel 
Core 2 Duo or something is performing all this out-of-order execution, 
yet it still goes to extreme lengths to enumate a completely sequential 
machine with no pipelining.

It would be a damned site *simpler* for it to not try to do all this 
emulation. In fact, it would be a lot more *efficient* too. But where's 
the market in that?

> It just cracks me up that nobody is willing to say "Yes, we don't have 
> ACID, and that's a *good* thing sometimes."

Yes, because everybody loves having the ability to make things 
unreliable and unpredictable...?

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