Analytical Event Processing (AEP) and RDBMS
Posted by charlesbrett on 2009/11/10
In Merv Adrian’s Blog (http://mervadrian.wordpress.com/) he styles the issue as: ‘Will AEP Replace RDBMS? A Dialogue With Charles Brett’.
In the original dialogue published in Pund-IT on November 4th, the title was different: ‘A Dialogue: Traditional RDBMSs Stagnate as Analytical Event Processing (AEP) Emerges from the Shadows’. The difference matters. I was not trying to suggest that RDBMSs will disappear. Far from it: they will continue. Instead I was trying to explore the issue that Event Processing and the capability to analyze are moving so fast forward that they will remove the ‘crown of importance’ that RDBMSs have enjoyed for so long – a change in relative importance.
In the next INSIGHT-SPECTRA (www.insight-spectra.com – scheduled for publication later this month) a fuller discussion of both RDBMS and AEP than was possible in the Dialogue will appear. [For a copy, please email requestcopy@insight-spectra.com]
Merv Adrian said
OK, so I punched up the headline a bit
. The intent wasn’t to suggest that you were asserting that RDBMS would be replaced broadly or even for specific uses. I think the readers can see what you said. It was just to draw them in to a topic. The good news? It has been read quite widely. Mission accomplished.
Congrats on the blog – and much success!