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This makes me wonder whether there would be value in an OS that is also a DBMS (or vice versa). In other words, if the DBMS has total control over the hardware,
by munchler 5y ago
This makes me wonder whether there would be value in an OS that is also a DBMS (or vice versa). In other words, if the DBMS has total control over the hardware, perhaps performance can be maximized without too much additional complexity.
- sedachv 5y agoThis is a bad idea from the 1960s: IBM TPF, MUMPS, Pick. As soon as the hardware changes it becomes slower and more complicated.
- yellowapple 5y agoThat was back when hardware was changing to a significant degree, though. Nowadays, there ain't really much that's new about hardware today v. hardware from 10 or 20 years ago - hence operating systems / filesystems being able to remain mostly stable instead of suffering from the exact same problem.
- matt_d 5y agoOne example is DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System, https://dbos-project.github.io/ https://dbos-project.github.io/ / https://github.com/DBOS-project https://github.com/DBOS-project (more details under "Publications").