Darren New wrote:

> I'm just saying, it isn't that complex to accomplish "manually". You 
> need an ACID database - it's just not that hard to build one if you can 
> avoid making it general. The hard part of something like Oracle is not 
> the ACID, but the ACID and high performance regardless of what you store 
> on it. If you know what you're going to store and you code only the ACID 
> properties you need (for example, hard-coded constraints instead of 
> TRIGGER statements in SQL), it's pretty easy to do.

Personally, I take the view that something like Oracle is the product of 
many man-centuries of R&D, designed, implemented and tested by more 
experts than you can shake a stick at, and there is basically no way in 
hell that anything I alone could design will ever come close to the 
performance and reliability of a real DB product such as this. In fact, 
I'd think I would probably have trouble just designing something that 
produces *correct* results, never mind doing it fast.

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