[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4f8dbbf4$0$24585$c3e8da3$e408f015 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> A web forum has been down for over 24 hours now because of a power
> failure. Seems their database "broke".
> 
> Since there are few teenagers here, I figured I might get some "senior"
> opinions.
> 
> Are database engines so fragile that a power failure will truly wreak
> havok on a database requiring time consuming work and debugging ?

Big question: WHICH DATABASE?

The question is not "databases vs. RMS" but rather "good software vs. 
bad software.