Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
There's been much discussion over the past few months about the marriage of databases and filesystems - with Microsoft's Longhorn reportedly sporting the
Yukon integrated SQL Server, and GNOME Storage in heaty debate, if not development, there's been lots to talk about.
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It's worth bearing in mind that SQL is a means, rather than an end. It doesn't really matter how you can query the data, so long as you can do it easily and effectively. On traditional RDBMses, SQL is the means for doing this - in the future, this may well not be the case.
Of course, there's nothing stopping someone writing a SQL-savvy front-end to a lower-level database API (after all, that's pretty much what database servers do now internally).
As far as I know, when you install DB2 itself on an AS/400, all you're really installing is a SQL-capable front-end to the filesystem (give or take).
The neatest thing about AS/400s is really the fact that they have been very carefully designed for a specific range of tasks, and IBM has been particularly stringent in ensuring compatibility while they improve on that and expand what the systems are capable of.
That said, I tend to hold the view that you can learn something - no matter small - from the design of every system.