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• About: I'm founder and CTO of a web design & development company Frantic, located in Helsinki, Finland.

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• Posted Helsinki Nordic Perl Workshop 2014 to pnu

  

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• Posted Job: Full-Stack Web Developer - Helsinki, Finland to pnu

  Frantic is a web design & development company based in Helsinki, Finland. We're looking for developers:

  https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/45707/full-stack-web-…

• Posted Web developers (Helsinki, Finland) to pnu

  We have a web developer position open in Helsinki, Finland. As I'm personally involved with this recruitment, and Perl can be the main tool in this job, I think it's ok to be posted on this forum. Read the full…

• Commented on MySQL and Oracle
  @Ovid: Interesting. I didn't know about those projects, thanks. I'm not saying the relational model (or SQL as a language) is broken and must go away, but I see that more and more of the common web applications (and...
• Commented on MySQL and Oracle
  MySQL introduced the concepts of SQL and relational databases to the masses (of web developers). However, today there are more and often better (non-relational) storage alternatives for those applications. So I see this as just another chapter in that...

Comment Threads

• Ovid commented on MySQL and Oracle

  @pnu: MySQL is non-relational, also. It seems like much of the "nosql" movement is the desire to get away from relational databases, but Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access, Sybase and SQLite (to name the most popular) databases are not relational. Some people (undoubtedly not all) in the "nosql" movement seem to think that the relational model is broken, but the reality is that they've never used it (SQL is not relational and never can be). For some examples of attempts to create true relational databases:

  • Dataphor
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• Abigail commented on MySQL and Oracle

  Here's a blog post (in German) of a former MySQL consultant (who now employed by $WORK), pointing out that Monty has its own agenda: http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/2708-Monty-vs.-mysql-gpl.html

  He also points out (outside of the blog) that SUN has poured a lot of knowledge into MySQL 5.4 and the upcoming 5.5, and that we at $WORK see the performance enhancements Oracle poured into InnoDB while they owned it.