SDO, DAS, Data Services: standards for heterogeneous Data Access made easy
Posted in data access on Jan 23rd, 2008
End of 2007, we have been pleased to see Xcalia mentioned in the official announcement of Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5.
They also kindly release a nice Case Study about our Lab-2-Lab relationship around LinQ in 2007. During the whole year of 2007 we really enjoyed working with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 R&D team [...]
Posted in data access on Jan 23rd, 2008
Microsoft France is running regular technical sessions about Interoperability.
Last December we had a session about Xcalia DAS as a generic solution for Data Access, when users have both Java and .Net client applications.
During this session Steve Sfartz introduces the new features of LinQ within Visual Studio 2008, the upcoming Entity Metadata Framework and the Microsoft vision [...]
Posted in data access on Jan 21st, 2008
TheServerSide mentions a series of tutorials about XQuery and XQJ (XQuery Java interface).
I’ve never really believed into XML as a replacement storage format for “real” (e.g “serious”) databases. However, I believe into XML as a new interface around databases, or as a convenient local storage when requirements are limited (no transactions, single-user, lo logging, no locking) [...]
Posted in data access on Jan 17th, 2008
In this blog entry, Nati Shalom from GigaSpaces introduces his vision of an in-memory cache which would become the main persistence interface for applications.
You then just need to persist that cache, somewhere using some DB APIs. This process can be done asynchronously, in background.
Obviously, we also need to have some database functionalities around the cache, at least:
Transaction [...]
Posted in data access on Jan 16th, 2008
What will be the impact on the SDO / DAS specifications and Data Access in SOA in general? See here for details.
Sun also announced they bought MySQL. Same questions. This one is a little bit more difficult to understand. It seems to me be it will take a very long time to make this investment [...]
Posted in data access on Jan 16th, 2008
Seen on TheServerSide a Cameron Purdy’s blog entry, former CEO of Tangosol, another good caching technology, acquired by Oracle last year.
Cameron’s blog.
I used to have problems understanding the notion Data Grid itself, beyond the hype. To me it raises as many questions as answers. I recently changed my mind a little bit, and I will later explain in this blog what could [...]