Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete
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Eric Lai
September 06, 2007
As a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1970s, Michael Stonebraker co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology that underlies many leading relational databases today: Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server, Sybase Inc.’s Adaptive Server Enterprise, Ingres Corp.’s eponymous product, IBM’s Informix, and others.
But Stonebraker now argues that relational databases, also known as RDBMSes, are “long in the tooth” and “should be considered legacy technology.”
In an entry Tuesday at a new blog, The Database Column, Stonebraker also argued that today’s relational databases lag badly in performance behind a new wave of databases that flip database tables 90 degrees.
Column-oriented databases — such as the one built by Stonebraker’s latest start-up, Andover, Mass.-based Vertica Systems Inc. — store data vertically in table columns rather than in successive rows.
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September 6, 2007
Database: “Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete”
September 3, 2007
Security: “Expert finds ’stupid’ vulnerabilities in Oracle 11g”
Expert finds ’stupid’ vulnerabilities in Oracle 11g
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September 03, 2007 (IDG News Service)
The latest version of Oracle Corp.’s flagship database offers better security than earlier versions, but development errors have left vulnerabilities that attackers can use to steal data, an expert warned Monday.
“Oracle made big progress with 11g, but some of the vulnerabilities I’ve found so far in 11g are stupid programming errors,” said Alexander Kornbrust, managing director of Red Database Security GmbH, during an interview at the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
“Oracle must educate their own development team because they should normally avoid these simple security vulnerabilities,” Kornbrust said.
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August 23, 2007
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