Adam Bosworth’s Weblog: Where have all the good databases gone
Adam Bosworth has som thougths on what a database ought to do.
“… If open source, I wonder if the software itself, should cost at all? Open Source solutions would undoubtedly get hacked more quickly to be robust and truly scalable across nice simple software. It wouldn’t be as pointwise fast, but the whole point is that these systems will scale linearly and are so cheap that it doesn’t matter. The advantage of Open Source is that those folks really understand how to build scalable clouds of machines with a default assumption of failure and load balancing. It’s called Apache. There are some other interesting problems that the database vendors are also ignoring but for now (like how do I ask for the set of complaints that are like the ones this customer has) but for now the three above seem like the big ones to me. My message is to the Open Source community that has, so ably, built LAMP (Linux, Apache and Tomcat and MySQL and PHP and PERL and Python). Please finish the job. Do for databases what you did for web servers. Give us dynamism and robustness. Give us systems that scale linearly, are flexible and dynamically reconfigurable and load balanced and easy to use.
Light that LAMP for us please. ”
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