As regular readers know, I've not been a fanboy of anything Cloud. My reasons are less to do with security, reliability, and other mundane considerations; rather that Cloud represents lowest common denominator (race to the bottom) disk storage. As a means for storing family vacation photos, well, OK. I'd prefer to keep those on my own storage, but each to his own. But Cloud for serious storage, I've never been a fan. My Yellow Brick Road is paved with SSD running BCNF databases. Unless, and until, Cloud provisioners recognize that it ain't "about just bytes", I'll pass. Some times, if it's too good to be true, it ain't true.
Then Amazon jumped the shark.
Here's another take on the situation. This is from an experienced Cloud provider, of a sort. As he says, the Fortune X0 have been trying to provide a central storage solution for rather a long time, with little obvious superiority. It's worth noting that the IBM Service Bureau service goes back to, at least, the early 1960's. Cloud is neither new nor a walk in the park. I guess Amazon and its clients now know that.
The Service Bureau (and similar) were able to provide some semblance of service over leased lines. The notion that TCP/IP, with HTTP tossed in, over normal phone lines is sufficient is, well, immature. What was that you said? The Emperor has one fine set of threads. Yes, yes he does.
Despite what the reactionaries assert, the world is not flat nor is it hierarchical. The world is relational. Infinite granularity yields infinite complexity.
Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious
$536,800,000 MARF™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
Covid-19 has killed at least 1,123,836 people (as of 20 March 2023, final update)
Scientists aren't vocal enough about science. There are large groups of people who think scientists are all frauds and who don't
believe in science, and they're being cultured by some of our far right-wing politicians, religious leaders and community leaders. -- Drew Weissman/2022
To date, Microsoft is stating that organizations testing In-Memory OLTP have
seen transaction speeds improve by up to 30 times compared to past
performance, with the best performance gains achieved when the business
logic resides in the database and not in the applications.
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]
I have had to explain and re-explain and re-explain and re-explain, you know, how relational databases work, what is an eigenvector,
what is dimensionality reduction.
-- Christopher Wylie/2018
... but Flash-based storage has such a different performance profile from rotating media, that I suspect that it will end up having
a large impact on filesystem design. Right now, most filesystems tend to be designed with the latencies of rotating media in mind.
-- Linus Torvalds/2007
-- Chris Date/2009
This week's thought
Investigative reporters are an idiosyncratic breed of journalist. Typically fearless, they are often a source of angina to their editors. Mr. Walsh was no exception. -- Michael S. Rosenwald/2024 [no surprise - I spent a bit of time on Jack Anderson's staff]
In a time of SSD, multi-core/processor, two terabyte memory and Optane App Direct Mode machines, there is no reason not to
build from BCNF data. Time to do what Dr. Codd demonstrated. Technology has finally caught up with the maths.
About
- Robert Young
- Been doing databases, both relational and others, as well as operations research since Hector was a Pup.
Shameless Plug
I know a little something about SQL, DB2 (preferably LUW, z/OS if the money's right), Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, and database design in general. Mentoring/teaching/consulting on a short term basis, too. And a bit of stat analysis if it's R.
gnuoytr at rcn dot com.
gnuoytr at rcn dot com.
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