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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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