Boy, I’ve got all sorts of cool geek news today. First up, this Slashdot article, Object Prevalence: Get Rid of Your Database?, details an interesting proposal for resolving the tension between RDBMS and OO - get rid of the RDBMS and persist data in objects stored in memory.
Skeptical? And for good reason - it’s a new idea that makes grand claims (queries that are up to 9000 times faster). There’s a good article on IBM’s developerworks.com that introduces the theory. As detailed in the Slashdot article, there are benchmarks available, as well as a page discussing the tests they ran and running the tests for yourself. The project to implement this theory, Prevayler, is experiencing some load difficulties due to the publicity resulting from Slashdot, so you may want to check back in a few days.
Update - I’ve found an article on Advogato written by one of Prevayler’s developers. The article should provide some additional info until such time as prevayler.org becomes accessible again. The ensuing discussion after the article also addresses some of the obvious issues - scalability, transactional issues, etc.
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