Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:10:06 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right |
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Christian Axelsson wrote:
> Hans Reiser wrote: > >> They are building in support for transactions into the OS. >> >> Everything will be in XML. (It is not so important what format it is >> in, as it is that they are going to do it in one format.) >> >> Support for browsing versions in the FS. >> >> Support for browsing and querying XML their unified format. Ok, so >> SQL sucks, but this is still better than what we offer today in Linux. > > > I think this is better implemented in userspace somehow to keep the > kernel away from bloat. > What do you think of the GNOME Storage project: > http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/ > > Its not exactly the same but maybe its going in that direction. > well, I much much prefer www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html ;-)
The reasons why SQL sucks for semi-structured data are described there.
-- Hans
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