[dba-Tech] Bound web databases?

I received this link and felt it was worth sharing. There is a new
technology which is being developed that can allow remote internet linked
tables to be connected so close that it may appear that the LANs that are
using this technology are in fact using 'bound' tables.

The current state-of-the-art links Databases over the web use AJAX to poll
data changes on remote stations. As the number of users goes up the impact
of the servers of course increases. The debtamental increase is not nearly
as dramatic as the older OOPS type database systems where the spawning of
multiple threads can quickly eat up system resources. Regardless, as users
increase, any continuious connection process impacts your servers.

Enter a new technology called Node.js. This development promises to provide
multi-server connections, higher data polling and minimum impact of the
servers. 

Sounds incredible? Check it out:
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/07/13/node-js-is-the-new-black/

...and...

http://nodejs.org/ and http://nodejs.org/#about

Jim