After all these years of ORMs being discredited, one would think that folks intent on fashioning themselves as "data folks" would bite the bullet and learn about the RM and SQL. They are, in sum, only a bit of set theory. What quant would shy away from some basic maths? Maths is what quants do, right?
I guess not. An ORM for R has been announced. The end of the world is nigh.
What's even more perplexing: R can now be run, more or less, in-engine with all of the serious RDBMS. Why go backasswards?
Despite what the reactionaries assert, the world is not flat nor is it hierarchical. The world is relational. Infinite granularity yields infinite complexity.
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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]
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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.
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... 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.
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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.
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2 comments:
"Enterprise" types are terrified of runtime type information. Thus, the ORM religion -- even if it can still blow up at runtime if somebody puts a typo in the *mapping* name strings or host variable types :-)
or leave the 'y' out of 'they' :)
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