Meetings and Events
2011-11-02 @ 18:30 local (22:30 UTC) - Suspenders Bar and Restaurant
Open source databases depressingly mimic proprietary ones. They compete on "features". They don't share code or ideas. They don;t formulate a standard a la the IETF and then strive for interoperability. And they are not working toward creating a true RDBMS.
RDMBSs are important and technically challenging. It's time to bring database management systems -- MySQL, Firebird, Postgres, Ingres, Rel, MonetDB, SQLite, sapdb, et al. -- into the Internet age. Let's use the tools that made the Internet possible to get out of the database doldrums.
Goals for free DMBSs:
- Community
- Standard wire protocol
- Standard API
- New query language
- Shared language parser and query optimization library
- Adopt lessons from Unix about namespaces and interfaces
- Be the thinking man's choice
James K. Lowden works in quantitative research systems at AllianceBernstein. He began working with C, C++, and SQL around 1985, and NetBSD since 1.5. In his copious spare time he has for many years been the maintainer of the FreeTDS project (freetds.org).
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