[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86-64 and RDB and DB's in general on OpenVMS

[IanD]

Well, that got some responses ;-)

This is what I think is lacking officially on VSI's site, a place to discuss these types of issues

It's fine and well to say "VSI has already thought of this and that" but that doesn't communicate it to me nor does it make it a definitive that VSI have indeed considered all possibilities - for example, during the announcement discussion, there were certain products that VSI had not heard of and needed to go away to confirm, so discussing these types of things is very much needed IMO - hence why I post

Someone made mention of RDB and Oracle merging engines. Yes, that was the initial idea that Oracle had but when they looked into the RDB engine, it was decided the differences were too great to merge a common base from and decided to instead work on rapid development tools to build for each environment instead

A number of years ago, Ian Smith (?) and someone else whose name I shamefully forget paid a site visit to where I was working. The question of the db engine merge came up and the reply was the same, the engines are too different to bring them together - of course, anything is possible given enough time and money but I have not heard anything else over the years to think any different (not that I have followed rdb much actually)

Yes, I've used Cassandra, on windows, just to play with, impressive actually

I think part of RDB's strength was in fact OpenVMS's clustering ability, which is why I am of the belief that if VMS is to have any chance of growing (I am not saying conquering the world!, that ship has sailed) then clustering needs to be enhanced greatly to incorporate things like migratable live processes, redundant clusters, grid computing, sort/cluster options bla bla bla - but that's a topic for another discussion I guess