tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891277981056105369.post1590402853731215047..comments2023-12-24T18:24:10.671-05:00Comments on Dr. Codd Was Right: NoSql? No Mas! No Mas!Robert Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09056808374481236610noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891277981056105369.post-69558128717066923252016-09-10T14:12:11.063-04:002016-09-10T14:12:11.063-04:00Hello again, Robert. FWIW, I just stumbled across...Hello again, Robert. FWIW, I just stumbled across a pretty good recap of this (in a discussion about PostgreSQL items needing future attention), in which somebody must explain "why" to one of the newbs :-)<br /><br />https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12468920Roboproghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11304202067539670383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891277981056105369.post-5979740788942540322016-09-09T12:58:03.479-04:002016-09-09T12:58:03.479-04:00DBaseII and III - I hated it
Berkeley-DB - never u...DBaseII and III - I hated it<br />Berkeley-DB - never used it<br />MUMPS - been around it, and devised at MGH before I lived in the North End<br /><br />"those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." that's not the exact quote, which I didn't look up, just my notion of it.Robert Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09056808374481236610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8891277981056105369.post-45935698831566112016-09-09T12:32:36.181-04:002016-09-09T12:32:36.181-04:00Having spent a few years working on xBase stuff (a...Having spent a few years working on xBase stuff (an ISAM system for PCs, basically) back in the late 80s, I'm familiar with the headaches of a non-ACID system. I don't know why the kids want to go back to a distributed analog of Berkeley-DB (name-value) or MUMPS (Codasyl-ish) type system, either :-)<br /><br />Some days I miss the explicit index chaining, vs delving into "what did the query planner decide to do *today*?". I don't miss the indices that missed an update, no rollback, dangling foreign keys, unset columns, etc etc etc.Roboproghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11304202067539670383noreply@blogger.com