For various reasons, I have uploaded a mirror for “The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite). The white paper/essay argues that the time for a “one size fits all database” is over, or was over in 2007. (That’s you, that is, Oracle RDBMS). … …
Why did Amazon take so long to deliver SQL in the Cloud
The storage market has been complexifying, (Is that a word Ed.) over the last few years; I have for a while considered the databases to be just another software abstraction layer between the hardware and the application i.e. completely equivalent to a file system. Also more recently it is clear that the highly scalable solutions builders have moved beyond relational databases. I conclude, today’s application designers and storage consumers are no longer always prepared to accept the compromises buying an RDBMS requires, it’s about Storage not SQL. …
Oracle & Sun & the European Single Market
A lot of people have been busy commenting on the EU’s investigation into the competitive dynamics of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, so I thought I’d join in. …