{"id":432,"date":"2010-02-10T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-04-20T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T22:48:54","slug":"a-new-bumper-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/a-new-bumper-sticker\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Bumper Sticker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/just-say-nosql.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-518\" title=\"just-say-nosql\" src=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/just-say-nosql.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/just-say-nosql.png 423w, https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/just-say-nosql-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a>Mind you, the NoSQL community still has a lot of work to do, years and years of work, <a href=\"http:\/\/infogrid.org\/\">InfoGrid<\/a> and many other <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NoSQL\">NoSQL<\/a> technologies non-withstanding.<\/p>\n<p>But I remember that when I first heard about what SQL is and what it does (particularly, what it can&#8217;t do), I thought: &#8220;this can&#8217;t be true. How many billions in revenue and market cap depend on that oddity?&#8221;. That was about when SQL was only about half as old as it is now&#8230; which makes this even scarier. (Try: no recursive queries. No abstract data types. No inheritance. No (meaningful) distributedness. No &#8230; &lt;insert many other things here&gt;. And how many thousands of lines would you like to write on object-relational mapping today? &#8230; )<\/p>\n<p>So with that hat on, I&#8217;m proud to display this image as a bumper sticker, which comes from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/timanglade\/nosql-for-fun-profit\">presentation<\/a> by Tim Anglade. May SQL never come near you ;-) If it does, run!<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: I don&#8217;t build payroll systems for a living. If I did, I might think otherwise. But I think they have all been built, and the new stuff does require thinking much more along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/infogrid\/a-taste-of-infogrid-1688328\">these lines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind you, the NoSQL community still has a lot of work to do, years and years of work, InfoGrid and many other NoSQL technologies non-withstanding. But I remember that when I first heard about what SQL is and what it does (particularly, what it can&#8217;t do), I thought: &#8220;this can&#8217;t be true. How many billions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,66],"tags":[516,46,45],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infogrid","category-technical","tag-infogrid","tag-nosql","tag-sql","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}