SDO, DAS, Data Services: standards for heterogeneous Data Access made easy
Posted in data access on Feb 18th, 2008
A new tutorial about GORM (Groovy ORM), seen on IBM’s developerWorks.
I’m repeating myself (see my previous posts) but I really think ORM should be available at the Groovy level not only at the Grails one. It would also have been much more interesting to interface with JPA instead of Hibernate.
I’m a little bit doubtful about [...]
Posted in data access on Feb 11th, 2008
We’ll probably see in the coming months more and more acronyms ending with “aaS” which stands for “as a Service“.
This article from InfoQ mentions Longjump’s Database as a Service offer (DaaS, not our DAS). They just host and administrate a MySQL database for you, and they offer REST or SOAP APIs to manipulate it. As [...]
Posted in data access on Feb 5th, 2008
TheServerSide mentions here that ODMG3 will now be hosted at www.odbms.org.
It seems that object databases are gaining some traction on the market, probably due to the good job done by db4o. Versant (my former employer) is also doing not too bad, at least from the financial point of view. I’ll soon have some news about [...]