Re: {Spam?} The future of databases?
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Ok, > > Here are two articles that came up in a google search that happen to > have caught my eye. > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/121709-big-three-database-vendors-diverge.html?page=1 > http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/big-three-database-vendors-disagree-on-hadoop/139613-pg2 > > If they look similar, its because both articles are from the same author. > > The point, for those who are reading challenged, is that unlike the > clown, Hadoop and HBase have some merit and that they've caught the eyes > of some senior management types. IBM, Microsoft and Oracle should be > concerned because of this on several different levels. I never said HBase has no merit. I said it has no merit to the people who'd buy IDS. Cisco buys a lot of IDS, but they haven't bought one great-big-fuck-off system, they've bought hundreds of little systems (is what I understand from the blurb, anyway). Same with K-mart or whoever else buys a lot of Informix. They don't buy great-big-fuck-off single Informix systems, they buy hundreds or thousands of small systems. I don't know all Informix's customers, but I've been to hundreds and I've never seen any of them big enough to justify HBase. What possible use is HBase to them? And even though Informix has a great BI architecture, it's not seen as a BI platform, so even if it was reasonable to integrate HBase somehow AND it actually worked, someone would have to start selling IDS as a BI platform. Which would mean going round to all the DB2 customers and saying "Erm..." Which would mean going round to all the tools vendors and saying "Erm..." Etc. It's a huge gamble with no clear customer target. People who need HBase are already looking at HBase, they may like the idea of a nice SQL interface, but by the time the HBase DataBlade does everything people need, we'll be on the Next Big Thing. People who don't need it aren't going to be impressed by an HBase DataBlade. I've been in the IT industry long enough to know when I'm looking at the Next Big Thing. And HBase isn't it. It's a Thing. It may even be a Big Thing. But it's not the Next Big Thing. > Anant D. Jhingran from IBM's IM team seemed to be interested in this.... > > Now he's the CTO of IBM SWG IM pillar, no? I wonder who decided to implement PureXML? I wonder how much of that investment has been recouped by people actually buying PureXML licenses? > I wonder who some of those select customers are... ;-) > Maybe one of them OEM's IDS? So you think they might implement a flaky as fuck oddball product with a completely different paradigm instead of a reliable, well-known, clearly understood product in their highly reliable solutions? > But hey! What do I know? I don't know. What *do* you know? -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com I will now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.