Is the One-Size-Fits-All Database Dead?
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| The advantage can be a factor of 10 or higher. The paper includes
| some interesting 'apples to apples' performance comparisons between
| commercial implementations of specialized architectures and
| relational databases in two areas: data warehousing and stream
| processing.
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http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/2337257&from=rss
This also means that all benchmarks, whether commercial or not, can be set up
to tell half-truths (or even lies). There are some companies that are good
at throwing money at this type of problem, conducting 'studies' which show
inferiority of product that have no aggressive marketing force which strikes
back.
Related:
Salesforce.com CEO: Customization is king
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| Marc Benioff argues that Apex will let customers diverge further
| from one-size-fits-all hosted applications approach.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6124153.html?part=rss&tag=6124153&subj=news
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