[squeak-dev] re: Interview with Stonebraker on future of "big data"

Craig Latta craig at netjam.org
Thu Jul 30 13:24:48 UTC 2015


     Eliot writes:

> I found an interesting nugget at the end of [1] which is the need to
> integrate data models in different databases. “If your application is
> managing what you want to think of as a single database which is in
> fact spread over multiple engines,” says Stonebraker, “with different
> data models, different transaction systems, different everything,
> than you want a next-generation federation mechanism to make it as
> simple as possible to program.”
>
> This would seem to play to Smalltalk's strengths.

     Yes indeed!


-C

[1] https://tinyurl.com/o7nmvnv (forbes.com)

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