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Re: please recommend a small-scale replicated database.

From: Gabor Szokoli <szocske_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:36:53 +0100

Are we still talking about Gassfish? :-)

On 1/28/08, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org> wrote:
> I'm wondering why everyone seems to write off object-oriented databases for this use-case. Regardless of which implementation you go for, surely they are more than capable for this sort of task.
>
> Is it a matter of risk?

Yes.
I have an issue with replication, which I beleive to be orthogonal to
data representation. I'm happy with the ORM JPA provides, and would
consider replacing it with something new an unnecessary risk.

> Lack of training?

Yes. I'm not even sure we are talking about the same thing :-)

> Something else?

Yes: we are lucky if our end users can hadle SQL for manual
procedures, let alone something, well, not SQL.
(can't have the whole system go unusable just because my silly CRUD
app breaks, and the native RDBMS SQL console is an unbeatably robust
fallback.)

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