Re: concurrent DBM for Java?
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 01-04-2010 16:08, Jim Janney wrote:
Arne Vajh?j<arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:
On 01-04-2010 15:11, Jim Janney wrote:
I need to maintain a data base of small text snippets keyed by
arbitrary strings, without the overhead of a full SQL relational
database. We will have several people putting data into it so it
needs to support concurrent access over a network.
Why are you so sure that a full SQL relational database has
too much overhead?
Five years of experience using a relational database in the
application for which this is intended. They're great for some
things, and we use it for those things. This is not one of them.
And the simple solution of buying some more powerful database hardware
is not an option?
Are you blinking serious? Are you mental? In what universe is it simpler
to use an RDBMS and pay copious dollars for more hardware than to use a
key-value store, a kind of software which is *principally known* for being
simpler than an RDBMS?
The fact that using a relational database does not perform well does not
guarantee that a non-relational database will perform well.
That is just wishful thinking.
No, it's a reasonable hypothesis.
tom
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