TedZ - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Allergic reaction to MySQL (Score 1) 271

by TedZ on Saturday March 13, 2010 @03:53PM (#31466018) Attached to: Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL

But now they are optimizing for another, even less standard database (Cassandra), tying themselves down to it with non-standard query syntax.

Er, that the "worse is better" AKA simpler solution will win? That near-linear scalability with additional hardware is more valuable than backwards compatibility with 40-year old technology? That you are not considering the practical side but just arguing technical merit, which gets us back to Gabriel's "Worse Is Better"?

What was your point again?

Heh, newbies.

Comment Re:Allergic reaction to MySQL (Score 1) 271

by TedZ on Saturday March 13, 2010 @11:07AM (#31463980) Attached to: Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL

So you are right about the NoSQL fashion trend. Looks like for some companies it's easier to throw a pile of cheap commodity hardware driven by some NoSQL BigTable-wannabie at the problem instead of carefully optimizing queries and indexes for the best performance.

Companies do whatever is cheapest. Today, it's cheaper to scale with hardware than with optimizing queries and indices. This is just what Richard Gabriel's described in his classic essays, see http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

Do you know the cost (salary or consulting) of a MySQL expert? How about the cost of optimizing for that one database, tying yourself down to it with non-standard SQL? How about MySQL's historical baggage, piles upon piles of backwards compatibility?

It's not as simple as it seems, the business of data.

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