Comments on: Google has thousands of internal data formats, mostly simple ones http://www.dbms2.com/2008/07/08/google-has-thousands-of-internal-data-formats-mostly-simple-ones/ Choices in data management and analysis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2008/07/08/google-has-thousands-of-internal-data-formats-mostly-simple-ones/#comment-90400 Curt Monash Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:37:32 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=459#comment-90400 Dan, They addressed the JSON point directly, albeit briefly, in the comment thread. Dan,

They addressed the JSON point directly, albeit briefly, in the comment thread.

]]> By: Daniel Weinreb http://www.dbms2.com/2008/07/08/google-has-thousands-of-internal-data-formats-mostly-simple-ones/#comment-90199 Daniel Weinreb Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:19:02 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=459#comment-90199 The printed representation looks an awful lot like JSON (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON). I wonder why not just use JSON, which is well-known and precisely specified? Anyway, this and JSON are very useful for many applications. I agree that it's another IDL. It's not all THAT simple. But I haven't used IDL's too much in practice and probably it's simpler than CORBA's IDL! So, it looks nice; no major breakthrough or anything like that, just an incremental improvement on what we all know about. That's fine; incremental improvements are perfectly respectable. The printed representation looks an awful lot like JSON (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON). I wonder why not just use JSON, which is well-known and precisely specified? Anyway, this and JSON are very useful for many applications.

I agree that it’s another IDL. It’s not all THAT simple. But I haven’t used IDL’s too much in practice and probably it’s simpler than CORBA’s IDL! So, it looks nice; no major breakthrough or anything like that, just an incremental improvement on what we all know about. That’s fine; incremental improvements are perfectly respectable.

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