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Almost every database I've ever seen was used by more than one application, and from different languages. If you succeed, you're going to have ops and sales and
by prodigal_erik 16y ago
Almost every database I've ever seen was used by more than one application, and from different languages. If you succeed, you're going to have ops and sales and support and finance and bizdev needing access, and they're going to want to use their favorite tools rather than wait for you to build poor imitations from scratch.
- artsrc 16y agoSo we are stuck with SQL forever because it currently has the broadest set of access tools?
- prodigal_erik 16y agoWe aren't necessarily stuck with SQL (for instance, right now there are LDAP or XML or RDF-oriented datastores out there with fairly open APIs and decent interop), but we are stuck with "articulation of the domain twice, once for a datastore, and once for application" unless one programming language finally conquers all the others and becomes the only platform your schema needs to be usable with.