This week in the JavaWorld developer forums

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Oct 18, 20071 min

Week of October 15, 2007

This week in the JavaWorld developer forums:

Michael Stonebraker on why row storage is obsolete

According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, row stores and relational databases are legacy technology long past due for an upgrade. Do you agree or not? What are your experiences with row storage versus column-oriented storage? How about object databases like db4o — interesting or not?

Listen to Howard Wen’s podcast interview with Michael Stonebraker, then let’s hear your thoughts!

More discussions in the JavaWorld developer forums:

100% test coverage works for libraries, overkill in the real world

Best way to implement a dynamic card game?

I need help converting decimal to binary!

A typical case of cat and mouse …

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