"I like this idea in principle, but in practice I wonder about the implications of it. Normally the database is a sort of special-purpose component with its own

"I like this idea in principle, but in practice I wonder about the implications of it. Normally the database is a sort of special-purpose component with its own resources and scaling methods. I think if someone actually did apply the full power of this system to build their whole web application logic into the database server they might run into problems if/when they need to scale up due to coupling the database and application layer. Everyone who didn't build their web application logic in the database would pay the performance penalty for parsing / authenticating requests in a scripting language instead of in compiled C code. The database layer is one possibly rare place where people will be counting milliseconds of overhead per request as a problem." This.