Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 2 00:40:52 CDT 2012
Yes, that is true but you have to either setup the servers and webservers or you have to purchase someone else's services. This way you basically made drop box into a free web server...small only twenty-five GBs, depending how many clients you have delivered to Dropbox or how long you have been a customer, but still adequate for a very simple DB. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 2:19 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] An OSS database for Dropbox Your concept of "full" is a little different to mine. Looking at it, you could extend the technnology to store the data files anywhere on the internet in exactly the same way. It's just a bunch of files stored somewhere which the application has to manage- no BE engine involved. If you want" a full database that runs anywhere there is browser netwrok/web services", there are plenty of mySQL and SQL Server systems out there which do exactly that and they have been around for years. -- Stuart On 1 Nov 2012 at 11:39, Jim Lawrence wrote: > How about a full database that runs anywhere there is browser network/web > services. Well, now there is. > > http://blog.opalang.org/2012/10/dropbox-as-database.html > > Wonder if this technology can be extended to Skydive or any other of the > many Cloud systems out there? > > Jim > T > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com