- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:09:20 -0600
- To: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
I just read... [[ 2. Have databases enabled people to harness Moore˘s law in parallel? This would mean that databases could scale more or less linearly to handle both the volume of the requests coming in and even the complexity. The answer is no. Things like ORDER BY, joins, subqueries, and many others make it almost impossible to push the query logic down to an arbitrary number of leaf nodes and simply sort/merge/aggregate the results. The easier way to limit queries to avoid this would be to limit all predicates to ones that can be computed against a single row at a time, at least where efficiency and scale are paramount. ]] -- Learning from THE WEB http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=337&page=5 and it makes me feel better that we postponed aggregates. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/issues#countAggregate Of course, I would have liked to postpone sort and some others too... -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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