in reply to Re^2: Musings about a database ecology
in thread Musings about a database ecology

The key is to reduce the overhead for processing a query. Whether or not the final persistent storage is a RDBMS or not is irrelevant - the primary storage should be a RAM-store of some sort. It could flush to a RDBMS any changes on a regular basis, say between requests. Doesn't matter much.

The point is that talexb's problem arises out of two issues:

  1. The overhead of RDBMS requests
  2. The need to have a traffic cop

I feel that my design would provide a lightweight solution that provides for both issues.

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