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Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash

• gluejar 13y ago
  So it's all MarkLogic's fault?
  • guelo 13y ago
    It's insane that they went with a proprietary XML database for a project like this. The site probably won't work until they rip out that stupid database and put in a regular SQL database, but that probably means a full rewrite.
• Edmond 13y ago
  unbelievable...this is what happens when nerdy zealots are let loose to make crucial product decisions. I am sure there is some hipster hacker in there who advocated the adoption of nosql.
  • Lazare 13y ago
    Trust me, no "hipster hacker" anywhere on the face of the planet has ever uttered the words "I know what would make this project better; an XML datastore!". Nothing is less cool than XML. The hipster solution would be MongoDB. :)
• bsg75 13y ago
  > Another sore point was the Medicare agency’s decision to use database software, from a company called MarkLogic, that managed the data differently from systems by companies like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. I wonder where this requirement came from. Were there specific reasons, such as an analysis that this particular technology was most appropriate to the task? Or something involving vendor favoritism?