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But we're not moving towards a metadata rich database, we're moving towards balkanized proprietary walled gardens in the cloud.
by jjoonathan 7y ago
But we're not moving towards a metadata rich database, we're moving towards balkanized proprietary walled gardens in the cloud.
- eecc 7y agoThat's true. The problem is that even when you pay for service, the incentive is to suck your data away, data-mine the hell out of it and hold you at ransom. It's like cable TV, originally one paid a premium to avoid advertisements. Today it's just the norm, and you get the advertisements anyway.
- kccqzy 7y agoBoth of these are true. We're moving towards walled gardens in the cloud, but within these cloud, your "files" are becoming rows in a highly sophisticated database, perhaps in addition to blobs in a highly sophisticated object storage system.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoBut it doesn't matter because you - the user - aren't exposed to the benefits or even the abstraction of that database. You don't get to make arbitrary queries for metadata. You get access to whatever half-featured interface the vendor bothered to implement, whereas the database is optimized for their operational and datamining purposes.