Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 01:56:49 -0500 From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: Good Fowler article on ORM Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (Linux/3.0.0-19-generic-pae (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 01:56:49 -0500 Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ayyJVUv9a+EpUhwUAYgJ5zAoX6yJP3kddrO2JMA80K82AdLv5uu3w04gH7v8Gfwb8p6sZDQMjngkpC1!9GubyaxZ8oOrybXKA1g5GciEzH+y14cJRsBvftqCd88dusI9rXS6IUZnxO9RfYf9aufl1RUogw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1547 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14476 Roedy Green wrote: > We are very close to the point for many problems when you can store > your entire database in RAM or Flash RAM. It would seem to me, that > should spawn a new set of tools for managing data that don't have to > worry about fine tuning access times. Access time is rarely the bugbear you try to solve with a relational database. Data integrity and management (in particular sharing and canonicality), is. -- Leif Roar Moldskred