Federation in the MySQL empire
Marten Micklos, CEO of MySQL, gave a recent speech speculating about a big federated “database in the sky,” providing all sorts of Web 2.0 benefits. Apparently, the idea isn’t at all fleshed out yet. Even so, I have a nagging suspicion he’s pointing in somewhat the wrong direction.
That’s because I think federating relational databases is a generically bad idea. You can federate sets of services, and you can generate services from relational databases – and that’s where DBMS2 (DataBase Management System Services) got its name. This is a superior approach to direct database federation, for two main reasons. (By “direct federation,” I mean some sort of structure in which there’s a giant virtual database whose schema more or less directly incorporates much of the schema of each individual database.)
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