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Database engineer K.S. Bhaskar has written about how YottaDB relates to M, also known as MUMPS. MUMPS, a fast, cross-platform nosql database standard (ISO/IEC 11756:1999), can even be found powering health care and financial systems.
In computing, the term legacy system has come to mean an application or a technology originally crafted decades ago, one important to the success of an enterprise, and which at least some people consider obsolete.
But age alone does not make something obsolete – we still read and appreciate Shakespeare a half-millenium after his death, and paper clips from over 100 years ago are still familiar to us today, We must recognize that software is also part of our technical and cultural heritage (see Software Heritage).
As in much else in our daily lives, legacy and heritage are intertwined.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Monday September 10 2018, @03:56AM
MUMPS is ACID compliant and easily models key-value, column, document, and graph architectures [datasciencecentral.com] and has been retrofitted even for SQL for those that need a crutch. It also scales up in the ways that HADOOP wishes to, but also scales down to run on the Raspberry Pi, both YottaDB and GT.M are there. (And probably easier than HADOOP) You won't beat it on speed or uptime, that's for sure. It's user friendly, but like UNIX, it is picky about who its friends are. No DBAs are needed, so that's a strike against the empire builders which rely on the poor worker-to-machine ratios provided by M$ to inflate their ranks.
[thedailywtf.com]
Speaking of M$, the site TheDailyWTF is only a bunch of M$ tech bros and they come down on anything that is not M$ Access wrapped in VB.Net. So of course they will try to slam something they can't reach and which none of their products will ever approach a fifth of the maturity.
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