RE: Ok

Paulo Candido (PauloC nospam at vesta.com.br)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:22:50 -0300

> I have said before, and I will say again, and I think many
> people agree with
> me. There is no way that a relational database is going to
> scale to the
> project at hand. The XML must just be in flat files. It
> would be *so* much
> faster, easier to mirror, vastly more extensible, etc. If you have a
> relational database, you lose the extensibility of the XML.

I think we can have both. As I see it, the server interface with the
outside world and the server interface with whatever form of storage we
want to use should be completely independent. So, if I have an Oracle
and an UltraSparc 10000 to spare, I should be able to setup a server to
use it.

On the other hand, relational databases can scale very well if correctly
designed. But I am more inclined to agree with you, that a file system
implementation would be faster.

cheers

Paulo