So I asked a question earlier today that i’ve been asking for the last two years of my life after a conversation; after I realized I couldn’t find my battery charger for my camera. Emil “retweeted” my question.
? @christophwarner: Why are people still not using object/graph databases in 2009? Why is everyone still screwing around with ORMs?
Yes.. Why.. WHY?! Who want’s to deal with impedance mismatch? Why store the object in a flat table? All of that is highly inefficient and it takes for, fucking, ever to get anything done. As your relational data and relationships begin to grow it becomes extremely difficult to manage. Yet, people seem to keep doing it. Popular toolkits like Django and Ruby are pushing ORM’s like it’s nobodies business. No one seems to be able to answer the question. So most installations look like LAMP and most sites are engineered the same crappy and ugly way. So.. Marko A. Rodriguez gave a lecture at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Graph Databases and the Future of Large Scale Knowledge Management that I think is relevant to the question and teeters on the brink of what I like to call Web 3.0, the next level of web applications or as stated The World Wide Web vs. the Web of Data in the slides. Eventually others will catch up and others will simply fall behind; it’s a brand semi-new frontier! Anyway, if you are interested in what you can do today with your data store and expanding your content and reach on the web far beyond everyone else, with less work. Read the introductory slides here
Also as much as I would love to update here; I’ve been a little busy.. on all avenues and I had to start over on my email soooooooo.. I know I said I’d make a best effort to reply and it wasn’t a lie it’s just too much to catch up on when you neglect certain folders for nearly a month. So my apologies to those of you who’ve sent email and got no reply.
Christopher Warner is part genius, part idiot. This makes him well balanced. He's worked on numerous opensource projects with great people and has generally led an eventful and fulfilling life. He hopes to retire an old man in a rocking chair should he be so fortunate.
Graph Databases and the Future of Large-Scale Knowledge Management
So I asked a question earlier today that i’ve been asking for the last two years of my life after a conversation; after I realized I couldn’t find my battery charger for my camera. Emil “retweeted” my question.
? @christophwarner: Why are people still not using object/graph databases in 2009? Why is everyone still screwing around with ORMs?
Yes.. Why.. WHY?! Who want’s to deal with impedance mismatch? Why store the object in a flat table? All of that is highly inefficient and it takes for, fucking, ever to get anything done. As your relational data and relationships begin to grow it becomes extremely difficult to manage. Yet, people seem to keep doing it. Popular toolkits like Django and Ruby are pushing ORM’s like it’s nobodies business. No one seems to be able to answer the question. So most installations look like LAMP and most sites are engineered the same crappy and ugly way. So.. Marko A. Rodriguez gave a lecture at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Graph Databases and the Future of Large Scale Knowledge Management that I think is relevant to the question and teeters on the brink of what I like to call Web 3.0, the next level of web applications or as stated The World Wide Web vs. the Web of Data in the slides. Eventually others will catch up and others will simply fall behind; it’s a brand semi-new frontier! Anyway, if you are interested in what you can do today with your data store and expanding your content and reach on the web far beyond everyone else, with less work. Read the introductory slides here
Also as much as I would love to update here; I’ve been a little busy.. on all avenues and I had to start over on my email soooooooo.. I know I said I’d make a best effort to reply and it wasn’t a lie it’s just too much to catch up on when you neglect certain folders for nearly a month. So my apologies to those of you who’ve sent email and got no reply.
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Christopher Warner is part genius, part idiot. This makes him well balanced. He's worked on numerous opensource projects with great people and has generally led an eventful and fulfilling life. He hopes to retire an old man in a rocking chair should he be so fortunate.